Two groups at Harvard University have announced that they have received approval to start human-cloning research designed to create lines of embryonic stem cells to study and treat diseases. “We are ...
WASHINGTON (TND) — Researchers in China announced Tuesday that they had successfully cloned a healthy rhesus monkey, an act that could have huge potential in medical study and genetics. ReTro, as the ...
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 ...
Explore the ethical, social, and philosophical dilemmas of human cloning. Understand the implications of reproductive and therapeutic cloning, identity, consent, and the moral questions of copying ...
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 ...
Human cloning is finally here, and it is going to spark a political conflagration. First, some background. The cloning era began when Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996. Dolly was cloned via ...
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 ...
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 ...
Back when it was no more than a cheesy science-fiction plot device, human cloning seemed like something that would eventually be revealed to a horrified world full-blown and fully grown–a monstrous ...
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 ...