BMJ  2004;328:185 (24 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7433.185-a

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Claim of human reproductive cloning provokes calls for international ban

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An international ban on reproductive cloning is urgently needed, say embryologists and organisations working in the field, after a claim last week that a fertilised egg produced by reproductive cloning had been implanted into a woman's uterus.

Panos Zavos, professor emeritus of reproductive physiology-andrology at the University of Kentucky, in the United States, claimed at a press conference held in London last week that he had implanted a cloned embryo into a woman's womb. He said that the embryo had been produced from the immature egg of an infertile 35 year old woman and a skin cell from her husband.

The procedure had taken place "very recently," he reported, and it was too early to see if implantation had been successful. He refused to give details of the national or racial origins of the couple involved and offered no proof that the procedure had taken place. But he said that . . . [Full text of this article]

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