January 17, 2004
Doctor 'implants cloned embryo'
Dr Panos Zavos has provided no evidence to back up his claims A controversial US fertility specialist who says he has implanted a cloned embryo into a woman's womb has been condemned as "irresponsible" by scientists.Posted by Bob King at January 17, 2004 10:55 AM | TrackBackDr Panos Zavos gave few details and no evidence, and said it was still too early to tell if the procedure had resulted in pregnancy.
But UK Health Secretary John Reid condemned the attempt to create a cloned human baby as a "gross misuse of genetic science".
Fertility experts said if true, it was an "incredibly risky" step to take, and said Dr Zavos was giving false hope to people desperate to have children.
To embark on human cloning at this stage... just seems to me quite astoundingly irresponsibleDr Zavos made his announcement at a news conference in a central London hotel on Saturday.
He said the embryo came from the immature egg of the infertile 35-year-old woman, and a skin cell from her husband.
He said it was a "very recent event" that did not happen in the US, the UK or anywhere else in Europe.
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