(2003-09-16) -- An unidentified British couple announced today that they have succeeded in creating an embryo and implanting it in the woman's uterus despite their lack of scientific training.

The high-school educated couple, working in a "home laboratory," has devoted the two years since their wedding to numerous iterations of a procedure they theorized might produce such a result.

They plan to name the "viable tissue" Ian Michael, and to attempt replication of the experiment within 24 months.

The reaction from the scientific community was swift and harsh.

"These people were amateurs trying to play God, without university credentials or peer review," said an unnamed editor at the journal Science. "We call upon the government of Great Britain and the United Nations to adopt international protocols for reproductive experimentation. If left unchecked, millions of couples may experiment with such procedures thereby stripping scientists of their proper place in the circle of life."