Scientist Claims to Produce Human Clone - December 27, 2002 By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - A chemist who belongs to a sect that believes life on Earth was created by extraterrestrials claimed Friday to have produced the world's first human clone, a baby girl.

The 7-pound baby was born Thursday by Caesarean section, said Brigitte Boisselier, head of Clonaid, the company that claimed success in the project. Boisselier, who spoke at a news conference, said the baby, dubbed "Eve" by the scientists, is a clone of the 31-year-old American woman who donated the DNA for the cloning process, had the resulting embryo implanted and then gestated the baby. If confirmed, that would make the child an exact genetic duplicate of her mother.

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