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Nature 412, 667 (16 August 2001) | doi:10.1038/35089199

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Academies called to task over human cloning débâcle

Laura Bonetta

The US National Academies has come under fire for inviting researchers who plan to clone human beings to a forum held in Washington on 7 August.Severino Antinori, director of the International Associated Research Institute for Human Reproduction in Rome, and Panos Zavos, director of the Andrology Institute of America in Kentucky, used the meeting to announce plans to start cloning experiments in November.