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........ RE: Article: Cloning from the dead claim attacked | New Scientist |