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 ...

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 ...

Only a handful of laboratories around the world are pursuing human-cloning experiments. Researchers at Harvard are now trying to get approval from university and hospital review boards to start their ...

Scientists in Massachusetts said yesterday they had succeeded in creating the world's first cloned human embryos, a controversial advance intended to speed the development of new medical therapies but ...

THE SENATE will shortly take up one of the most pressing moral, ethical, and scientific issues of our time: the Brownback proposal to outlaw human cloning. Two alternative proposals would ban only ...

The world has now learned of a surprising scientific advance: so-called “synthetic embryos.” Their arrival promises to reveal to medicine previously hidden glimpses into problems of early pregnancy.

Cloning mammals : methods, applications, and characteristics of cloned animals / George E. Seidel Jr. -- Cloning and the fallacy of biological determinism / Richard C. Lewontin -- There will never be ...

An Italian infertility doctor announced this month that more than 700 barren patients have signed up with him for human cloning experiments. Other scientists were so shocked that a doctor would test ...

For 17 years, Leona Burgess desperately watched her husband wither away from Parkinson's disease. His body trembled, he often couldn't walk or talk and he hallucinated, sometimes believing police were ...

Researchers in China have successfully cloned the first rhesus monkey, a species widely used in medical research because of its physiological similarity to humans. The monkey, named Retro, is now more ...