He is a biochemist at Seoul National University and headed the investigation. The four cells claimed to have developed from an egg implanted with adult DNA were not preserved. The scientists who say they performed the experiment at the Kyung Hee Health Centre in Seoul, Dr Kim Seung Bo and Dr Lee Bo Yon, gave their first in-depth interview to BBC One's Panorama, broadcast on Monday. They said their experiment was for research purposes only but observers believe their aim is human cloning. That makes absolutely no sense.
Fertility clinics have one goal in mind - to help people have babies.
I think this technique will help infertile patients a great deal. These latest developments have further fuelled the debate surrounding human reproductive cloning. Peter Blackburn says he would consider cloning a child Peter Blackburn and his wife Ildiko told Panorama they were considering cloning as a way around their fertility problems. Dr Donald Bruce, a scientist and director of the Church of Scotland's Society, Religion and Technology Project, told the BBC he was sceptical that cloning could happen at present. When you try to clone mammals in this way, all sorts of problems occur.