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| Brigitte
Boisselier |
The head of a company that says it has produced the first human
clone said on Monday that the mother and baby were home following
the child's birth last week and genetic proof demanded by scientists
and other skeptics should be available in a week.
Brigitte Boisselier, chief executive of Clonaid, which is linked
to a group that believes mankind was created by extraterrestrials,
declined to say whether the 31-year-old American mother and her
child were in the United States or elsewhere.
Her claim to have cloned a human being last week drew skeptical
reaction from experts in the field and she offered no proof, but
said that genetic testing was scheduled for Tuesday.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which strongly opposes
human cloning, said on Friday it was "taking steps to investigate"
Clonaid's claim. It said the implantation of a cloned baby into
a woman is illegal in the United States without FDA approval.
Clonaid was founded by the creator of the Raelian Movement, a
group that claims 55,000 followers around the world and asserts
that life on Earth was sparked by extraterrestrials who arrived
25,000 years ago and created humans through cloning.
(Agencies)
Updated: 2002-12-31 01:00
布里吉特上周宣布她已經成功地克隆出了人類。這一結果遭到了同一領域專家的質疑。她沒有提供更多證據，只是透露說將于12月31日進行基因測試。