IT HAPPENED in a quiet lab in New England. In the early hours of 10 October,
Jose Cibelli took a batch of human eggs, sucked out their DNA with a pipette,
and replaced it with DNA from an adult human being. Three days later, a few of
the embryos the Argentinian-born scientist created were still alive.
Thus was born the media frenzy about the “first human clones” that raged
earlier this week. The embryos in question were mere pinpricks—no arms, no
legs, just bundles of up to six cells. Yet this was what some had hoped for and
others…
