CANBERRA, Mar 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Australian bioethicist Nick Tonti-Filippini, who advised an Australian Senate inquiry into cloning admitted this week that Australia has already undertaken human cloning experiments. The Australian Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that in 1999, researchers implanted a cell containing human DNA in a pig. The cloned embryo lived for 32 days before it was destroyed.
The experiments, were carried out by Melbourne company Stemcell Sciences which has applied for a European patent to continue its experiments. Although Australian law forbids artificially creating genetically identical humans, the company has evaded the authorities by creating animal-human hybrids. Some of the DNA of the pig egg is incorporated into the living creature created by the process.
For more see the Daily Telegraph at: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/common/story_page/0,4511,1793134%255E3163,00.html