Clones outlawed

Cloning a human being will soon be banned across Europe. “Any intervention
seeking to create a human being genetically identical to another human being,
whether living or dead, is prohibited,” says a protocol agreed last weekend by
the Council of Europe, which represents governments of 40 European nations. The
protocol has been added to the council’s Convention on Human Rights and
Biomedicine, published in April and so far signed by 22 nations.