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Perhaps the best-known researcher attempting to defy the taboo on reproductive cloning is Severino Antinori, the maverick Italian gynecologist best known for helping a 62-year-old woman bear a child in 1994. Antinori, who dismisses his critics as "Taliban," told Time that reproductive cloning could help infertile couples and that he was "very, very close" to cloning a human baby...
...plan, outlined during a cloning conference sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, calls for the impregnation of 200 women - each half of a couple desperate to benefit from what one of the three human cloning advocates, Dr. Severino Antinori, calls "therapeutic" cloning...
...turn of phrase is likely to raise a few eyebrows in the scientific community. In the ongoing debate over stem cell research, "therapeutic" cloning has referred to the reproduction of embryos for the purpose of gathering stem cells. The proposal offered by Dr. Antinori, Panayiotis Zavos and Brigitte Boisselier, on the other hand, apparently involves taking an egg from a human mother, removing the nucleus and implanting the nucleus of a cell from the person who?s being cloned. (This is the same method used by the scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep...
...Even as Antinori, Zavos and Boisselier made their case, tempers flared and governments, from the United States to Italy, reiterated their condemnation of the trio?s plans. Shrugging their collective shoulders, the scientists seemed unfazed. Antinori, for one, plans to go ahead with his cloning - on the safety of an undisclosed Mediterranean island...
...Antinori, Ben Abraham and Zavos are modern-day rebels, even in the sometimes eccentric field of cloning. Antinori is also part of a team that says it will create its first human clone in 2002. Zavos, quoted above, is a well-known fixture in the world of cloning research; he and Antinori have long advocated human cloning as "the logical next step" in reproductive science, insisting the practice will provide new hope for couples who have been unable to have children. Friday, Antinori was particularly voluble when asked to defend the pending project against ethical and scientific concerns...