A controversial Italian doctor Severino Antinori says he has successfully cloned three babies that are now alive and well in eastern Europe, Daily New reported.
"I helped give birth to three children with the human cloning technique," said gynocologist Severino Antinori in an interview with the Italian publication Oggi weekly. "It involved two boys and a girl who are nine years old today.
They were born healthy and they are in excellent health now," he said.
Italian doctor Severino Antinori known for his work allowing post-menopausal women to have children has claimed that in an interview to Oggi weekly (Roma).
He did not provide proof of his claims, but said cells from the three fathers, who were sterile, allowed the cloning to be carried out.
The women's egg cells were impregnated in a laboratory through a method called “nuclear transfer,” he said.
Antinori, who became famous after allowing a 63-year-old woman to have a child in 1994, said “respect for the families' privacy does not allow me to go further.”
He added that the method used was “an improvement” over the technique used to clone Dolly the sheep in 1996.
Reminded by the journalist that such cloning is prohibited in heavily Catholic Italy, the doctor said he preferred to “speak of innovative therapies” or “genetic recoding” rather than cloning.
Cloned Three Babies
Gene of Popularity
Alexandra Burt, PhD, of Michigan State University asserts that "The idea is that your genes predispose you to certain behaviors, and those behaviors elicit different kinds of social reactions from others," Burt said in a news release. "And so what's happening is your genes are to some extent driving your social experiences."
Studies of a gene that affects brain levels of the chemical messenger serotonin (the 5HT2A serotonin-receptor gene) are supporting this theory.
Sightist assembled more than 200 college men with an average age of 19 into two groups. One group met together to plan a party on a strict budget; the other met to plan a party for which the sky was the limit. Immediately after the planning session, individuals rated their peers on popularity. They also gave a DNA sample.
"So the gene predisposed them to rule-breaking behavior, and their rule-breaking behavior made them more popular," Burt says.
Genetic Research News
Last researches have showed that a genetic test might determine which sports, like sprinting or football, or endurance sports like distance running, or a combination of the two, maximally suit the talents of your 2 ½-year-old kids?
“I could see how some people might think the test would pigeonhole your child into doing fewer sports or being exposed to fewer things, but I still think it’s good to match them with the right activity,” Ms. Campiglia, 36, said as she watched a toddler class at Boulder Indoor Soccer in which Noah struggled to take direction from the coach between juice and potty breaks.
“I think it would prevent a lot of parental frustration,” she said.
It was discovered the link between ACTN3 and athletics. Actually the process of testing is very easy. Dr. Roth called ACTN3 “one of the most exciting and eyebrow-raising genes out there in the sports-performance arena,” but he said that any test for the gene would be best used only on top athletes looking to tailor workouts to their body types.
