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 ANTINORI ACCUSES U.S. RESEARCHERS OF STEALING HIS IDEA TO CLONE Tue Nov 2001 27 09:28:44 ET The controversial Italian fertility expert Severino Antinori accused U.S. researchers of stealing his idea to clone a human embryo -- and he vowed to speed a clone of a human embryo for reproductive purposes within six months! MORE The Rome-based gynecologist, ostracized by many in the international medical community for planning to clone humans to help infertile couples, said the breakthrough would speed up his project. ``Now cloning is a reality ... and people will come to understand that it is a human right to use it to have children,'' Antinori said. Antinori claims Italian laws prevented him from making an earlier breakthrough. "I feel like I'm the father of this success," he said. The 55-year-old doctor, who became famous for in-vitro fertilisation methods which enabled women in their 50s and 60s to give birth, said his reaction was mixed "because I would have done it myself in Italy but I wasn't allowed to." He said a ban on his work in Italy had been "based on religious beliefs and not on scientific explanations." Antinori said he wanted to use cloning technology to help infertile couples have children and claimed some 5,000 potential candidates for his services in the United States and 600 in Italy. He presented his plans to clone a human embryo to scientists in Washington last August. He said he remembered having discussions at the time with Jose Cibelli, vice-president of the research department of Advanced Cell Technology, which announced its breakthrough on Sunday. However, he said he intended to travel to several countries in the next month, including Britain, Japan and India to further investigate his technique. Antinori has said his cloning technique would be particularly valuable to a couple where test-tube fertilisation is impossible because the man produces no sperm. Genetic material taken from the man could be injected directly into the female's egg, which would then be implanted in the womb. Antinori shot to prominence in 1994 when he helped a 63-year-old woman to have a baby by implanting a donor's fertilised egg in her uterus, making her the oldest women known to give birth. |
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