|
This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence.
Raelian Cloning
Machine Becomes British Museum Exhibit
The British
Science Museum exhibits a Raelian RMX2010 embryonic cell fusion machine and
defends its decision to do just that.
The machine went on display
Wednesday, 22nd January, at the museum in Central London.
“Clonaid's cloning machine
makes a thought-provoking addition to our science news gallery in the run-up to
our 50-year anniversary of Watson and Crick's unravelling of the structure of
DNA,” said Emily Scott, head of science news exhibitions at the
museum.
Raelians and their group
Clonaid attracted much controversy in December with the claim of the first
cloned baby, Eve, but since then there's been reports of another two births but
proof of DNA printing as of yet has not been allowed that would confirm the
declaration.
The machine delivers
electric pulses thought to encourage the incorporation of an adult cell nucleous
into an egg cell with its nucleous removed, thus producing a cloned
embryo.
It's very similar to one
used by a team in Edinburgh, Scotland that produced the world's first cloned
sheep, Dolly, in 1997, the machine displayed alongside the said Raelian one.
Scott said the scientific
community believed serious difficulties with human cloning made it very unlikely
the claim of the Raelians is true.
Raelian Cloning
Machine Becomes British Museum Exhibit written by Bill Barber
|