In addition to the work at Clonaid, former University of Kentucky professor Panayiotis Zavos said he plans to clone a human within the next year.

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Individually they believe they have the knowledge necessary to produce a human clone now or in the very near future.

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The first scientists to clone a human embryo admitted today that there were ethical lapses in the way the research was carried out.

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Monash University's Trounson puts the Raelians' chances of actually having a human clone at less than the chance that a person will be struck by lightning.

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But Mitalipov says his process with the human cells isn't designed to generate a human clone, but rather just to create the embryonic stem cells.

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In order to clone a human, scientists would remove the nucleus of an egg and extract its genetic material, leaving just its shell.

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Nonetheless, ACT's paper, published yesterday in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, provides a guidebook to groups that want to clone human embryos to make babies.

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Finally, we assemble all the chunks in a human stem cell, which would enable you to finally create a Neanderthal clone.

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Even if the entire blastocyst had been implanted into a womb, it wouldn't have yielded a human clone.

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Panos Zavos , the Kentucky fertility doctor and would-be human cloner, apparently doesn't see Lucas' clone army as a problem.

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