Decius wrote:
] ] Panayiotis Zavos, of the Kentucky Center for Reproductive
] ] Medicine, Lexington, US, say his team has shown that
] ] cells taken from humans after death could be used for
] ] cloning. This latest work is purely experimental and no
] ] embryos were implanted for cloning, said Zavos,
] ] announcing the results at his own press conference in
] ] London, UK.
] ]
] ] However, the claims were immediately met with both
] ] revulsion and scepticism from the UK scientific
] ] community.
] ]
] ] "The work is both scientifically questionable and
] ] ethically unacceptable," says Richard Gardner of the
] ] UK Royal Society's working group on stem cell research
] ] and cloning. "It is grossly misleading to suggest
] ] that you can replicate a loved one by producing a cloned
] ] person with the same genetic material."

Ummmm no thanks........