Just for the record, Dr Panos Zavos is up to his old cloning tricks again. The Greek Cypriot-American fertility doctor has been quiet for several years after making his spectacular claims about human reproductive cloning. He popped up again late in April to announce that he had cloned 14 human embryos and implanted them into the wombs of four volunteers. Alas, the women failed to become pregnant.

"There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming," he told the London Telegraph. "There is absolutely no way it that it will not happen. If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent."

Whenever Dr Zavos reveals that he has once again come tantalisingly close to cloning a human child, he is denounced by scientists and the media around the world. He never offers clear evidence -- and this time was no exception. As Ian Sample, of the Guardian, noted, the latest escapade was "purest, spoonfed PR". ~ London Telegraph, Apr 22