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.
And not only that, to be forced to become the exact duplicate of your clone, to whom you have to spend your whole life with.
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Being able to clone pigs would make it easier to raise animals with organs suitable for transplants.
They digitally clone themselves to create a picture where two or more sets of twins dressed in designer clothes, traditional Muslims garb or military uniforms act out contradictory and stereotypical behaviours.
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Instead, they want to use somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same process used to clone Dolly the sheep in 1997, to create embryonic stem cells.
"We tried the same approach to clone monkeys, because we'd been interested for biomedical research to produce cloned monkeys, and it never worked, " he said.
Those companies were able to clone the IBM PC because IBM made the mistake of allowing its partner, Microsoft, to license a virtually identical version of its PC-DOS operating system to any takers.
Rather than churn out family comedies in the vein of the popular Modern Family or attempt to clone the musical dramedy Glee, the networks are approaching the fall season with their hopes pinned on series more akin to Flash Forward and Friends in style.
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.
Even if you've got a job, your boss could use the software to replace you with a clone who's willing to work for less.
Mitalipov, senior author on the paper, laughs when asked if he wants to clone a person.
Boisselier, a French biochemist, said she hopes to clone a human being within a year.
However, at least two groups of scientists have said they have plans to clone a human.
As for Clonaid, its more disturbing ambitions include a plan to clone a dead child.
Google has sought to clone the key traits of its founders through an algorithm-driven hiring questionnaire.
Boisselier said she wants to prove it is safe to clone a human.
When Zavos announced his intentions to clone a human, he predicted that he and Antinori could do it within two years.
"I think that fact alone will make the Amazon model hard to clone, " says Bill Gurley, a partner with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
It also could provide a blueprint for organizations that want to clone embryos for reproduction, although that is not intent of the researchers.
In order to clone a human, scientists would remove the nucleus of an egg and extract its genetic material, leaving just its shell.
The first scientists to clone a human embryo admitted today that there were ethical lapses in the way the research was carried out.
Work is under way to clone and otherwise increase the population of Sumatran rhinos, which presently number only about 200-300 in the wild.
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.
President Bush has already spoken out about news from South Korea late yesterday that scientists there have managed to clone human stem cells for medical research.
Right now, scientists can only use stem cells to study particular diseases by creating embryos through the same process used to clone animals like Dolly the sheep.
In an interview with Der Spiegel, geneticist George Church made some headlines by claiming that it will be possible to clone a Neanderthal in the near future.
He speculates that one reason why it may be more difficult to clone monkeys and humans is because the egg cells are more fragile than those of other species.
One of the biggest problems is "skimming" - when the magnetic strip is copied and the information used to clone a card that can then be used anywhere in the world.
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