Human cells cloned for first time

[KiwiElf]

Human cells cloned for first time
AP, The West Australian May 16, 2013, 10:03 am

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/17173427/human-cells-cloned-for-first-time/

US researchers have reported a breakthrough in stem cell research, describing how they have turned human skin cells into embyronic stem cells for the first time.

The method described by Oregon State University scientists in the journal Cell, would not likely be able to create human clones, said Shoukhrat Mitalipov, senior scientist at the Oregon National Primate Research Centre.

But it is an important step in research because it does not require the use of embryos in creating the type of stem cell capable of transforming into any other type of cell in the body.

The technique involves transplanting an individual's DNA into an egg cell that has been stripped of genetic material, a variation of a method called somatic cell nuclear transfer.

"A thorough examination of the stem cells derived through this technique demonstrated their ability to convert just like normal embryonic stem cells, into several different cell types, including nerve cells, liver cells and heart cells," said Mitalipov.

He added that since the reprogrammed cells use genetic material from the patient, there is no concern about transplant rejection.

"While there is much work to be done in developing safe and effective stem cell treatments, we believe this is a significant step forward in developing the cells that could be used in regenerative medicine," Mitalipov said.

Years of research on monkey cells using the same technique have not successfully produced any monkey clones.

Since the human cells used in the study appeared even more fragile, researchers said it was unlikely clones could be made.

"While nuclear transfer breakthroughs often lead to a public discussion about the ethics of human cloning, this is not our focus, nor do we believe our findings might be used by others to advance the possibility of human reproductive cloning," they said.

Scientists hope stem cell research will offer new pathways in the fight against Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries and blindness.

[InCiDeR]

I am not sure if there is any truth in following story, I can't find any confirmation, but according to cloniad the first cloned baby was born on 26 december 2002:

First cloned baby "born on 26 December 2002"


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. The birth at an undisclosed location went "very well", said Brigitte Boisselier, president of Clonaid. The company was formed in 1997 by the Raelian cult, which believes people are clones of aliens.

"The baby is very healthy. She is doing fine," Roisselier told a press conference in Hollywood, Florida, on Friday. The seven-pound baby is a clone of a 31-year-old American woman, whose partner is infertile, she said.

Proving that the baby is a clone of another person would be possible by showing that their DNA is identical. Genetic tests on the baby and "mother" will now be carried out and the results will be available "in eight or nine days", Boisselier said.

She told reporters: "You can still go back to your office and treat me as a fraud. You have one week to do that." Boisselier added that Michael Guillen, science editor at ABC News and a former Harvard University mathematician, will carry out the genetic tests.

Necessary expertise

Many scientists are sceptical of Boisselier's claim. Alan Trounson of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, says he does not believe the group has the necessary expertise to clone a person. "And nearly everything they have said in the past has never been confirmed by scientific investigation," he told the Sydney Morning Herald.

Maverick fertility scientist Severino Antinori, who claimed earlier in December that the first cloned baby would be born in January 2003, is also critical. "An announcement of this type has no scientific corroboration and risks creating confusion," he said. "We keep up our scientific work without making announcements. I don't take part in this ... race."

Opponents of human cloning point to the high rate of miscarriages of cloned animal fetuses, and the high rate of defects in live births. Boisselier has claimed that the large number of female cult members willing to act as surrogate mothers increased their chances of success.

"Irresponsible and repugnant"

Attempting to clone humans is "irresponsible and repugnant and ignores the overwhelming scientific evidence from seven mammalian species cloned so far," Rudolph Jaenisch, a cloning expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told New Scientist previously.

In May, US-based fertility scientist Panos Zavos told the US Congress that five groups of scientists were rushing to be the first to produce the first cloned human baby.

Reproductive cloning - creating a baby rather than a cloned early embryo - is illegal in many countries. But in November, talks on a global ban were suspended, following a series of deadlocked United Nations meetings.

New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3217-first-cloned-baby-born-on-26-december.html)


Here is another claim from same company (2009):

Eve: First Human Clone?


A scientist's announcement Friday that her group had produced the first cloned human being triggered skepticism from researchers, condemnation from some religious groups and a federal investigation.

The 7-pound baby was born Thursday by Caesarean section and will be home in three days, said Brigitte Boisselier, a chemist and CEO of Clonaid, the company that did the experiment. She wouldn't say where the baby was born; she did say the birth was at 11:55 a.m. local time.

Boisselier said the baby, dubbed "Eve" by the scientists, is a clone of a 31-year-old American woman and was born outside the United States, but wouldn't specify where.

The woman donated the DNA for the cloning process, had the resulting embryo implanted and then gestated the baby, Boisselier said. If confirmed, that would make the child an exact genetic duplicate of her mother — the same as an identical twin.

Boisselier, who wouldn't reveal any names, said the mother had resorted to cloning because her husband was infertile.

"The baby is very healthy," she said. "The parents are happy. I hope that you remember them when you talk about this baby — not like a monster, like some results of something that is disgusting."

Boisselier did not immediately present DNA evidence showing a genetic match between mother and daughter. Boisselier said results would come within nine days.

"You can still go back to your office and treat me as a fraud," she said. "You have one week to do that." (...)

CBS News/read more (http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-534594.html)


Clonaid (http://www.clonaid.com/page.php?7)


CLONAID™ ,the first human cloning company in the world, was founded in February 1997, by RAEL and a group of investors who created the Valiant Venture Ltd Corporation based in the Bahamas. In the first couple of years CLONAID™ has already received enormous media coverage. However, due to the pressure mounted on the Bahamas government by French journalists, Valiant Venture Ltd was cancelled as government representatives were thinking the laboratories would be established on the Bahamas Island. Meanwhile, the list of serious potential customers had grown to more than 250 people! Therefore, during the year 2000, Rael decided to hand over the CLONAID™ project to Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, a Raelian Bishop, in order for her to start working on actually cloning the first human being with a team of well-trained scientists. Dr. Boisselier has PhD degrees in physical and biomolecular chemistry. In her last job she was a marketing director for a large chemical company in France.

In the summer of 2000, an American couple that wanted to help develop this technology in order for them to have a baby contacted Dr. Boisselier. They were the first major investors funding the equipment and the laboratory needed and CLONAID™s first human cloning laboratory was set up in early 2001.

In the summer of 2001, following several visits from U.S. government representatives in our facilities, CLONAID™ decided to pursue its human cloning project in another country where human cloning is legal.


The funny thing is that the two articles seems to be from 2002 respective 2009, still they talk about same event? (according to Clonaids homepage it was born 2002 though!)

[ghostrider]

yes, If they release statements about cloning, that means they have already long ago cloned a person or persons ...Once again CNN , Msnbc, Fox, etc , say nothing about it ... wouldn't it be big News ??? or hush hush in the cover of darkness ...

[Gardener]

There is no doubt at all that it is possible to clone a human (likely done already), as the sheep 'Dolly' has proven. There is nothing to suggest it is not so. And after all this time since this successful cloning, no doubt they have proceeded in many areas.
The sheep had bone degeneration and died from a progressive lung disease.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28sheep%29


Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer.[2][3] She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics near Edinburgh in Scotland. The funding for Dolly's cloning was provided by PPL Therapeutics and the Ministry of Agriculture.[4] She was born on 5 July 1996 and she lived until the age of six, at which point she died from a progressive lung disease.

[Sidney]

Do you honestly believe they have not already been doing this for years, decades, maybe even centuries? I think this article is hysterical.

That said, the lies are different at every level, so maybe THESE scientists have no idea about the governments secret programs. But I doubt it, just another disinfo article from good ol MSM.

[InCiDeR]

Do you honestly believe they have not already been doing this for years, decades, maybe even centuries? I think this article is hysterical.

That said, the lies are different at every level, so maybe THESE scientists have no idea about the governments secret programs. But I doubt it, just another disinfo article from good ol MSM.

Are we talking about humans or visiting aliens here?

Humans, I believe we have been doing this since WW II or around that time (I have no evidence though, not even circumstantial)

Aliens, for millennium...

BTW, an interesting new serie about clones:
Orphan Black (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234222/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)

[Sidney]

Do you honestly believe they have not already been doing this for years, decades, maybe even centuries? I think this article is hysterical.

That said, the lies are different at every level, so maybe THESE scientists have no idea about the governments secret programs. But I doubt it, just another disinfo article from good ol MSM.

Are we talking about humans or visiting aliens here?

Humans, I believe we have been doing this since WW II or around that time (I have no evidence though, not even circumstantial)

Aliens, for millennium...

Well I meant humans in general, but since there are both that inhabit the planet, yes and yes. I m sure aliens have been doing it since the beginnings, most likely how we came to be, or some form of it.

But as far as humans, I mean how many years ago did Dolly come to light? I feel they were experimenting with human cells at that very time, and more likely (IMO) much much earlier. because IMO, when it come out on mainstream, then its already been a reality for quite some time. You know, us little pin-brained bottom feeders can't emotionally handle scientific evolution, OH it might scew our religious beliefs or something. They have to feed it to us in little bits so we can handle it without falling apart. LMAO sorry for the sarcasm, it just gets sooooooo old being lied to.


OH I just saw your post Gardner, Im sorry I missed that you beat me to it. Good minds think alike, right? : )

[Sidney]

There is no doubt at all that it is possible to clone a human (likely done already), as the sheep 'Dolly' has proven. There is nothing to suggest it is not so. And after all this time since this successful cloning, no doubt they have proceeded in many areas.
The sheep had bone degeneration and died from a progressive lung disease.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28sheep%29


Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer.[2][3] She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics near Edinburgh in Scotland. The funding for Dolly's cloning was provided by PPL Therapeutics and the Ministry of Agriculture.[4] She was born on 5 July 1996 and she lived until the age of six, at which point she died from a progressive lung disease.

Lung disease at 6, probably chemtrail poisoning.

[KiwiElf]

I think it may have been "unofficially" earlier than that - had a friend who was involved in the "industry" who claimed human clones had already been successfully done - over 25 years ago ;)

[etheric underground]

We are 2300 years behind black operation technologies......whatever we can imagine and some is capable.
there was a post somewhere that told a story about a number of protestors in England breaking into what they
believed to be animal experimentation labs....what they found in an underground section were numerous clones
of one of Englands high ranking politicians....all but one of the protestors were murdered.
Cloning on humans has been around since Von braun etc... did experiments on twins in WW2.....

[Gardener]

Over many years I have had 'first thought impressions' on a number of so called news from our main stream. One of these was the sheep news.........my thought at the time "well if they did that they did human'

Sigh

[WhiteFeather]

I think they cloned Al Gore. This is proof. He looks fake here. An Avalon peer (Flash) hit it right on the head....
Quote: Gosh its a clone. ;)
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?59161-Al-Gore-discusses-global-warming-with-Ellen-DeGeneres&p=674635&viewfull=1#post674635


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrrWXurroWw