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For more on the cloning story, and a look back at the path that?s led scientists to this point, visit TIME.com?s special report on The Genetics Revolution
The 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.
His 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...
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...
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