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First Human Clone Eight Weeks Along

Vegeta99 writes "An Italian researcher is claiming ground-breaking progress, and has successfully cloned a human, and the mother is now 8 weeks pregnant, according to this article. Now how long until I can buy my own clone?" It's worth noting that the Roman medical associations bioethicists denied Dr. Antinori permission to proceed with these experiments last month. So doing the math, Rome was a little late... If the pregnancy continues without miscarriage, the tyke may share a birthday with Marie Curie

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  1. Transcript by sharkey · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    The nurse who performed the latest ultrasound checkup on the mother-to-be claimed she heard words over the fetal heartbeat monitor. After running the heartbeat recording through the "Sing-Like-N'Stync Karaoke Machine's" sound-scrubber, we have early words from this ground-breaking fetus!

    Quoth the fetus:
    • "Me Stan. Pachewie-chomp, pachewie-chewie-chomp."
    There you have it, a shocking report from the exciting world of genetical engineering!
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