Chinese doctors have announced that they have successfully transplanted a whole ovary, the first time that such a procedure has been attempted in humans. The recipient of the ovary was Tang Fangfang, a 34-year old woman who had had her own ovaries removed because of cancer. Her younger sister...
A team of doctors at Great Ormond Street children's hospital, London, has successfully used gene therapy to treat a child born with a life-threatening genetic condition that affects the immune system. Usually, babies with X-linked severe combined immune deficiency (X-SCID) have to live in sterile 'bubbles' to avoid contracting any...
The Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, and eight state and territory premiers have agreed on a national human embryonic stem cell research policy. Stem cell research will be allowed to take place in Australia, but all forms of human cloning are to be banned, so Australian researchers will be...
Severino Antinori, the Italian fertility doctor regarded by many as a maverick, announced at a conference last week that a woman who is a patient in his reproductive cloning project is eight weeks pregnant. He did not, however, specifically state whether the woman is carrying a cloned embryo. Antinori has...
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Human cloning claims are grossly irresponsible
by Dr Jess Buxton
Maverick fertility doctor Severino Antinori managed to hijack the headlines yet again last week, following reports that one of his patients is pregnant with a cloned embryo. At the time of writing, neither he nor his American colleague Panayiotis Zavos has confirmed or denied the story. True or not, their...