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The understanding of life is the intellectual challenge of the third millennium. -- Dr. Richard Seed
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Race to Clone Humans Now Underway in Earnest
Dr, Richard Seed, who says he intends to clone his wife, announced at a London conference on March 30, 1999 that he expects the first human clone to be created within two years.
By GSReport
Start Date: 4/1/99
Several laboratories are now engaged in a race to clone a human being, controversial scientist Dr, Richard Seed said on March 30, 1999 while attending a London conference on reproductive ethics.
Seed predicted the first human clone would be announced within two years.
"I know of one other clinic that is racing to produce the first human clone and I suspect there are two or three others," he told the BBC. "I don't want to name any of them."
Dr. Seed sparked international outrage in 1998 when he announced his intention to clone himself in defiance of political and religious leaders who oppose the idea. He has now said that his wife Gloria will be the first subject to be cloned. Seed has lately been working in Japan to establish a laboratory and clinic where cloning experiments can be legally pursued.
Seed believes that cloning is a legitimate solution for couples who have reproductive problems. He also says cloning should be accepted because of the intellectual challenge it represents.
"It will launch an entirely new field of research into life processes. This challenge is absolutely irresistible and this will result in the understanding of life," he said. "The understanding of life is the intellectual challenge of the third millennium."
Many nations around the world already have legislation to outlaw reproductive cloning. However, many scientists believe the technology will find a use in transplant medicine.
Two UK advisory bodies have urged the British government to allow the cloning of early-stage human embryos for research, saying it might be possible to use this limited form of cloning to grow replacement tissue in laboratories. This might overcome many of the problems of rejection which currently hamper organ transplants.
But, asks Dr. Seed, "What is more ethical? To clone a human being to allow it to grow to full adulthood, or to clone a human being in order to harvest its organs?"
 Excelsior, Michael Lindemann's new novel (written under the pen name Michael Paul), depicts a wholly plausible near future in which human cloning is both widespread and widely abused; terrorists have access to target-specific biological weapons; recreational space travel is commonplace; and mounting pressures of global climate change, environmental decline, population growth and civil unrest inspire radical new approaches to urban security.
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