From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Sun Jul 14 2002 - 14:03:00 MDT
Amara Graps
> (International Herald Tribune's 13 July 'Italy Daily' of a recent
> Corriere Della Sera news report. I couldn't find the original Italian
> version of this story, unfortunately.)
> Maverick gynecologist Severino Antinori threatened French daily
> Liberation with legal action over its report that a child he cloned
> would be born in December. The 57-year old Roman said that he asked his
> lawyers to defend his "professional and scientific honor and sense of
> seriousness" Antinori said "all the information attributed to the birth
> has nothing to do with the serious scientific program that I am
> currently doing." Liberation said Antinori had impregnated a woman with
> the cloned embryo of an infertile man and the fetus was in good shape.
> (ANSA)
http://rainet.tiscali.it/cronache/article/20020712/25239.html
http://www.excite.it/informazione/news/cronaca/20020712/20020712110347_adnk_
clonazione_antinori_smentisce.xml
Yes, Antinori said his tech has nothing to do with cloning and it is called
"genetic re-programming" (as far as I understand he makes an embryo using
cells taken from the father and the mother)
s.
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