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Are there any living human clones?

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By Emma Young. The world's first cloned baby was born on 26 December, claims the Bahamas-based cloning company Clonaid. But there has been no independent confirmation of the claim. The girl, named Eve by the cloning team, was said to have been born by Caesarean section at 1155 EST. read more

BTW - you will not produce an adult human from cloning experiments. You will produce a baby human that would be the twin of the person supplying the donor nucleus. So you don't even end up with anything particularly special from your experiment. read more

Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy (or clone) of a human. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning, which is the reproduction of human cells and tissue. read more

There has also been no commercial motive for human cloning. Both the assisted reproduction (IVF) and pharmaceutical industries "immediately said they had no interest in human cloning," said bioethicist George Annas of Boston University. read more

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