Three cloned babies born: Italian Doc

Maverick Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori said on Wednesday that three babies had been born from cloned embryos in reproduction experiments. In May 2002, he had said three women were pregnant with clones. In November of the same year, he said a woman pregnant with a cloned embryo was due to give birth in January, but declined to give details. When asked on Wednesday about the cloning attempts, he said: ‘‘At least three went well. Three were born from nuclear transfer. Nuclear transfer has worked,’’ he said, referring to cloning using an egg cell and an adult cell from another human in much the same way Dolly the sheep, the world’s first cloned mammal, was created. — (Reuters)