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Pro-Life News in Brief.
Researchers Clone Embryos in South Korea and Britain
Scientists in South Korea announced that they created 11 human embryos through cloning, and then killed the tiny humans to harvest their stem cells for research.
South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang reported in the May 19 Science magazine that his laboratory created stem cell lines that match the DNA of patients who donated skin cells. The nucleus of a skin cell was injected into a donor egg that had its genetic material removed, according to the New York Times. The fused egg and nucleus were then stimulated to become a developing embryo.
After a few days of development, the cloned embryo was ...
- Clonaid Claims First Cloned Embryo Created in Its S. Korean Lab.
- News wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea February 24, 2004 700+ words
...that the first human embryo was prepared in its laboratory in South Korea in September 2001. The company also claimed the implantation...born boy in Australia, was prepared for in its laboratory in South Korea, the location of which it failed to identify. The contentions...
- CLONAID CLAIMS FIRST CLONED EMBRYO CREATED IN ITS S. KOREAN LAB.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News February 24, 2004 700+ words
...that the first human embryo was prepared in its laboratory in South Korea in September 2001. The company also claimed the implantation...born boy in Australia, was prepared for in its laboratory in South Korea, the location of which it failed to identify. The contentions...
- CLONED EMBRYO BABY WILL BE BORN IN JANUARY.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Burkin, Laura November 27, 2002 700+ words
...doctor Severino Antinori has said a woman pregnant with a cloned embryo is due to give birth in January. The Italian doctor said...news conference to give details of the latest woman with the cloned embryo. Large numbers of doctors reject cloning as irresponsible...
- Woman's 'cloned embryo'.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) January 18, 2004 700+ words
...old woman is hoping to give birth to the world's first cloned human this year, it was claimed yesterday. A freshly cloned embryo has been implanted in the woman, says US fertility expert Dr Panos Zavos. Dr Zavos, internationally condemned for trying...
- Zavos expects to impregnate woman with cloned embryo this year.
- Newspaper article from: Transplant News May 28, 2002 700+ words
...Panayiotis Zavos, MD told a House of Representatives subcommittee on May 15 that he expects to impregnant a woman with a cloned embryo by the end of this year. "All indications are 2002 could be the year of the clones," Zavos told the House Government...
- News Brief: Claim: Woman is pregnant with cloned embryo.
- Newspaper article from: Medical Ethics Advisor May 1, 2002 700+ words
News Brief: Claim: Woman is pregnant with cloned embryo A woman participating in a human cloning effort is eight weeks pregnant, apparently with a cloned human embryo, according to...
- Cloned embryo said to be implanted by fertility specialist.
- Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week February 9, 2004 700+ words
2004 FEB 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A Kentucky fertility specialist said January 17, 2004 he had implanted a cloned human embryo in a 35-year-old woman, a claim met with skepticism by many scientists. Panos Zavos, MD, said it was too early to say whether the woman would become pregnant
- Stem cells from cloned embryo: cloning breakthrough sparks political...
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Schneider, Mary Ellen March 15, 2004 700+ words
The recent announcement that scientists have derived a stem cell line from a cloned human embryo has the long-term potential to offer tailored disease treatments, but in the short-term could lead to restrictions on this research. The findings, reported by a group of South Korean researchers
Source: HighBeam Research, Pro-Life News in Brief.