Human clone attempt ‘in a year’. It’s always been clear to me that, as soon as it can be done, it will be:

A fertility expert says he will try to produce the first cloned human being within a
year.

After a vote in the House of Lords to allow scientists to clone human embryos for
research, Severino Antinori, who runs a fertility clinic in Rome, claimed to have 10
couples willing to take part in the experiment.

If successful, it will produce a baby who will be an exact genetic replica of its
father.

Dr Antinori is already notorious for enabling a mother of almost 63 to have a child to
replace her adult son who died, and for causing uproar in Britain six years ago when
he helped a 59-year-old unmarried woman have twins.

Dr Antinori told a meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, that he was forming an
“international coalition” of scientists to work on the cloning project in ‘a country of
the Mediterranean where I had consent’.