The babies were born healthy, but the technique which led to their birth was condemned as unethical by some British scientists, who said it amounted to human cloning. Up to 30 of the children were born as an unintended result of an experimental program at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St Barnabas, in New Jersey. Genes from the eggs of donor women were added to the eggs of infertile women in an attempt to cure their fertility problems. The research was published in the British scientific journal Human Reproduction . Eric Juengst, a gene expert at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, told the BBC he had profound reservations about the work of the New Jersey scientists.
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The election campaign is coming as Australian retailers brace themselves for massive impacts from last month's terror attack in New York. The Anglican Church in Melbourne has attacked Australia's treatment of asylum seekers, with some members of the clergy calling for a royal commission.