Another high-profile event took place in the history of human cloning. American geneticist Panayotis Zavos obtained exact copies of many human embryos. Some of them have already been transplanted into female volunteers
Professor P. Zavos, notorious for his work in the field of genetics, announced that he had recently cloned fourteen human embryos and transplanted 11 of them into women.
The four women who received cloned embryos have already become pregnant and are carrying children. Their birth can be expected in the near future. There are also videos showing both the work of P. Zavos on cloning and the transfer of embryos into the body of volunteer mothers.
In the vast majority of countries in the world, experiments with human cloning are prohibited. As reported by the British television company Sky News, P. Zavos has carried out his current work in one of the states of the Middle East.
Scientists and medical ethicists condemned the experiments of Panayetis Zavos on implanting cloned human embryos into the uterus of women.
American Zavos claims that while working in one of the Arab countries, he created 14 cloned embryos and implanted 11 in the womb of four women who volunteered to carry the cloned children.
"He is using the hopes of a childless couple as a springboard for his ambitions," said Alastair Kent, director of the Genetic Interest Group, a charity that helps families with hereditary diseases. “Let Zavos allow specialists to check his findings. If he is truly a master of his craft, he has nothing to fear. Otherwise, you need to shield potential patients from his actions,”added Kent.
For his part, Zavos says that many of his works have already been published in scientific journals, but some publications reject his manuscripts without reading, as they consider cloning a person for reproductive purposes illegal and immoral.
Zavos argues that cloning methods have become much safer these days, but reproductive biologist Wolf Reik of the Bebreham Institute in Cambridge objects: "The vast majority of cloned embryos are still not hatched or are born with abnormalities." According to Reik, it is too early to switch to human cloning.
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Recall that another notorious doctor, Severino Antinori, claims that nine years ago, as a result of the cloning procedure he successfully carried out, three babies were born.
Meanwhile, the world's only human cloning license has been issued in Australia, including a condition that a cloned embryo must not be implanted into the uterus.