- "Dr Zavos has also been discussing his highly controversial
plan to split an embryo into two. He plans to plant one embryo into a surrogate
mother and freeze the other. Stem cells from the frozen embryo could then
be used to provide spare organs or tissue for its sibling, if required."
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- United States doctor Panos Zavos has claimed he has planted
a cloned embryo into the womb of a 35-year-old woman. It would be the world's
first cloned embryo transfer.
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- Dr Zavos said he is currently waiting to see if implantation
was successful - the embryo has a 30 to 40 per cent chance, based on IVF
success rates.
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- The woman carrying the embryo, who Dr Zavos said had
suffered from early menopause, is yet to take a preganancy test.
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- Dr Zavos has cloned an embryo using similar technology
to that which created Dolly the sheep.
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- The move was condemned by many experts and pressure group
Life said Dr Zavos was exploiting the woman's desperation for children.
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- Spokesman Patrick Cusworth said: "Dr Zavos has exposed
this 35-year-old woman's vulnerability to almost incredible risk."
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- Dr Zavos has also been discussing his highly controversial
plan to split an embryo into two.
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- He plans to plant one embryo into a surrogate mother
and freeze the other.
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- Stem cells from the frozen embryo could then be used
to provide spare organs or tissue for its sibling, if required.
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- This plan is backed by British gynaecologist Dr Paul
Rainsbury, who runs a clinic which provides a gender selection service,
but the scheme has been condemned as unethical by other fertility experts.
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- Lord May Oxford, President of the Royal Society, said:
"Attempts to used untested technologies, which exploit vulnerable
people who desperately want children, should be condemned."
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