Friday April 5, 2002

SCIENTISTS CLAIM WOMAN EIGHT WEEKS PREGNANT WITH CLONED BABY

Dr Severino Antinori, the well known Italian in vitro fertilization specialist involved in the controversial human cloning project has announced that a woman taking part in the project is eight weeks pregnant. "Our project is at a very advanced stage. One woman among the thousands of infertile couples in the programme is eight weeks pregnant," he said to reporters.

Dr Antinori, a director of an Infertility unit at the International Centre for the Study of Physiopathology of Human Reproduction in Rome, refused to reveal the identity of the woman or even her country. He did admit the project is well advanced. "We have nearly 5,000 infertile couples in this project now," he said.

Interestingly he used the press attention to put in a plug for "therapeutic cloning" noting that he works in that field as well.

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