Fw: [Fwd:CLONE - Welcome to the Future. (fwd)]
Jetzen Hellfjord (glo-worm@ix.netcom.com)
Tue, 18 Mar 1997 13:23:38 -0800
> > (BW)(CLONAID/RAELIAN-MOVEMENT) Rael create the first human cloning
company
> >
> > Business Editors and Health/Medical Writers
> >
> > GENEVA, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1997--RAEL, the
> > founder of the RAELIAN MOVEMENT, a religious organisation claiming
> > that life on earth was created scientifically in laboratories by the
> > ELOHIM, those extra-terrestrials whose name is in the Hebrew Bible
> > and was wrongly translated by the word "God," and that Jesus
> > resurrection was in fact a cloning performed by the Elohim, announced
> > today that he has set up with a group of investors a company named
> > "VALIANT VENTURE Ltd" which will offer a service named "CLONAID"
> > which will provide assistance to would be parents willing to have a
> > child cloned from one of them. RAEL will announce officially this
> > creation Tuesday March 11, 1997 at a press conference at the Flamingo
> > Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada USA, in the Flamingo Room at 2 p.m.
> >
> > The Bahamas based company is planning to build a laboratory in a
> > country where the human cloning is not illegal and will offer its
> > services worldwide to wealthy parents. In a first phase CLONAID will
> > subcontract existing laboratories to perform the cloning. The
> > company may also sponsor american laboratories working on human
> > cloning which government subside have been cut by President Clinton.
> > CLONAID will charge as low as US$200,000 for its cloning service.
> >
> > The recent cloning in Scotland of the sheep "Dolly" has proven
> > that the technology is now available to complete the operation
> > successfully.
> >
> > CLONAID scientific director, the french scientist Dr BRIGITTE
> > BOISSELIER (PhD), sees no ethical problem with the procedure.
> > "Parents have the right to decide to have a baby who will bear the
> > genetic code of one of them. It's now common to see a dead parent
> > father a baby through the process of frozen sperm implantation.
> > Imagine the joy of a widow raising a child looking like her beloved
> > deceased husband," she said.
> >
> > CLONAID will also offer a service called "INSURACLONE" which,
> > for a fee of $50,000 will provide the sampling and safe storage of
> > cells from a living child in order to create its clone if the child
> > die of an inourable disease or through an accident. In the case of a
> > genetic disease, the cells will be preserved until science can
> > genetically repair it before recreating the child (or an adult).
> >
> > CLONAID, the first company in the world to offer human cloning
> > expect to have over a million customers worldwide interested in its
> > services as well as many laboratories to seek partnership in the
> > venture.
> >
> > RAEL said: "Cloning will enable manking to reach eternal life.
> > The next step, like the ELOHIM with their 25,000 years of scientific
> > advance, will be to directly clone adult peoples without the growing
> > process and to transfer memory and personality. Then we wake up
> > after death in a brand new body like after a good sleeping night!"
> > Peoples interested by CLONAID services can contact the company
> > through the I.R.M. CP 225 CH 1211 Geneva, Switzerland, or on the
> > Internet at: http://www.real.org
> >
> > For any interview with CLONAID scientific director Dr. Brigitte
> > Boisselier (Ph D), or with RAEL, contact Sylvie Chabot,
> > tel: 514/366-3734.
> >
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> >
> >
> > CONTACT: RAEL
> >
> > Sylvie Chabot, 514/366-3734
> >
> > or
> >
> > CLONAID
> >
> > Dr. Brigitte Boisselier (Ph D), 514/366-3734
> >
> >
> > KEYWORD: NEW YORK
> >
> > INDUSTRY KEYWORD: MEDICINE BIOTECHNOLOGY PRODUCT
> >
> > - --
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> > 512 338 0619 phone / 512 338 0625 fax
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> >
> >
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