Nearly three decades since the remarkable cloning of Dolly the sheep, it has all gone quiet on the human cloning front.
Scientists say they’ll go ahead anyway. Lawmakers, seeking to rein in the scientific appetite for human experimentation, are attempting to ban human cloning. On July 31, the House approved a bill, 265 ...
The British parliament has voted to allow the cloning of human embryos, despite a united appeal by the country’s religious leaders urging delay. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the two most senior Roman ...
An advisory committee appointed by President Bush to study modern medicine's bioethical frontiers has completed its highly anticipated report on human cloning without reaching a consensus as to ...
Can one be an advocate for embryonic stem cell research while opposing human cloning experimentation? That's the question facing about 30 U.S. senators who have not yet taken a position on human ...
An entirely appropriate stew of scientific vexation and mortification has accompanied revelations that the incredible Korean achievements in human embryonic cloning and stem cell research are exactly ...
SEATTLE - In a clash of politics and science, the first successful cloning of a human embryo - and the extraction of stem cells from it - has ignited new calls for a ban on all forms of human cloning ...
The cloning era began when Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996. Dolly was cloned via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). This is accomplished by removing the nucleus from a skin or other cell ...
We think of science as a clean and logical place where, with the right skills and instruments, you can see the world in a grain of sand. So what happens when you cross science with a circus full of ...
While duplicating Fido isn’t quite the ethical minefield that duplicating Uncle Fred would be, it does raise questions on ...