Saturday, July 22, 2006

'Maverick scientist' produces peer reviewed papers

On Thursday of this week the UK Guardian newspaper reported that Dr Panos Zavos had now published evidence of his experiments in reproductive cloning. Whilst not addressing the legal and ethical issues, the paper appears to offer evidence that is more acceptable, in scientific terms, than the announcements made directly to the media in 2004.

In the Guardian article Dr Zavos is interestingly described as a 'reproductive scientist' - a description that reinforces the impression that the lines between scientific research and clinical application are ever more blurred in the areas of both 'therapeutic' and 'reproductive' cloning (somatic cell nuclear transfer).

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