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Clone claims fail to impress

24 January 2004

“THEY need to offer to the world independent confirmation of these events and developments. We, in the Scientific and Clinical World…demand that.” Thus did Panayiotis Zavos of the Andrology Institute of America in Lexington, Kentucky, greet the Raelians’ claim a year ago that a cloned baby had been born.

In London last Saturday, Zavos was the one trying to grab the headlines. He told reporters that his team had transferred a four-cell cloned embryo to a woman, but that it was too soon to know if she was pregnant.

Zavos claimed the embryo was created by fusing an egg…

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