Human Cloning

If there is one thing I've learned since starting this blog it's that you need to take what you read in UK publications with a huge grain of salt. To say that British papers lean toward the sensational is an understatement.

Nonetheless this article caught my eye given the social and ethical implications so I thought I'd add it to the blog...with a dash of salt of course.

From The Independent (UK)...

A controversial fertility doctor claimed yesterday to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of four women who had been prepared to give birth to cloned babies.

Dr Zavos also revealed that he has produced cloned embryos of three dead people, including a 10-year-old child called Cady, who died in a car crash. He did so after being asked by grieving relatives if he could create biological clones of their loved ones.

There's also a short video about the cloning that you can watch here.