Clones, cowboys and raising the dead

Panayiotis Zavos is trying his best to clone humans. He is unlikely to succeed, but is setting a dangerous precedentDr Panayiotis Zavos is dangerous maverick. He is trying to clone babies. If it worked, these babies would be the genetic carbon copies of some existing adult or child.Scientists have been queuing up to point out the dangers of these human experiments. In the case of Dolly it took hundreds of embryos to get one cloned sheep.There is a real danger of genetic abnormality, stillbirth, or significant disability. Scientists are also pointing out that there is no evidence that Zavos has in fact cloned a human embryo.Zavos is also trying to create animal-human hybrids. He is putting DNA from a dead girl into cow eggs to try to produce hybrid embryos. Zavos says that he will not transfer these cowgirls into a woman. He is experimenting to improve the technique. Nevertheless,...

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