Maverick Italian doctor Severino Antinori's mid-December claim that the world's first cloned child was to be born this month in Serbia may have been proved wrong. If the latest claims are true, Canadian company Clonaid have beaten him to it, having announced the birth of a cloned baby girl called...
Since the announcement, there have been many responses to the claim that Clonaid, an offshoot of the Raelian cult which believes life on earth was started by aliens cloning humans, has achieved the birth of the first human cloned baby. In the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is...
Leon Kass, the chairman of President Bush's bioethics advisory council and a known opponent of human cloning, has received a public apology from Stanford University, after he accused it of trying to conceal the true nature of its stem cell research programme and of misleading the public on the council's...
Dr Geeta Nargund, the former director of the Diana, Princess of Wales Centre for Reproductive Medicine at St George's Hospital in London, is to sue the hospital trust for libel. She was suspended from the unit in October, following the revelation that a number of women had had the wrong...
The UK's High Court has banned the screening of embryos to help couples conceive healthy children who would also be able to provide cord blood to save the lives of seriously ill siblings. The surprise ruling, which concluded a case brought by pro-life campaigners, will prevent Raj and Shahana Hashmi...
French and American scientists have published the entire genetic code of human chromosome 14, the largest of the 24 different human chromosomes. It is made up of over 87 million chemical letters (base-pairs) of DNA, and contains more than 60 genes known to be involved in diseases. Although a rough...
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Publicity stunts can hinder medical progress
by Dr Jess Buxton
Baby Eve, supposedly the world's first cloned human, timed her holiday season arrival well. Born on the 26th December, when competition for the headlines was likely to be minimal, the mysterious baby girl received the full attention of the media. Clonaid, the religious cult-backed company that claims to have created...