April 9, 2008
The challengers argue that the hybrids are not permitted under current law because, when current law was drafted, it was for human embryos, not hybrids. They will have to show that this interpretation was not the meaning intended by the … Read More
April 8, 2008
When researchers announced two years ago that they had found a way to turn ordinary skin cells into stem cells, it opened up the possibility that stem cell therapies might sidestep the logistical and ethical hurdles of obtaining stem cells … Read More
April 8, 2008
Fears are growing that a form of cloning that is easier to carry out than the technique used to create Dolly the sheep may be used on human embryos to produce “designer” babies. Scientists have already used the procedure to … Read More
April 7, 2008
Considering that an embryo created by somatic cell nuclear transfer using animal eggs and human DNA is a ‘live human embryo’ is one that may well be challenged, although if this was challenged legally I would be inclined to agree … Read More
April 3, 2008
Britain is set to have its most comprehensive debate on abortion in two decades as those who oppose abortion rights seek to restrict one of the more liberal laws on this side of the Atlantic. In coming weeks, the lower … Read More
April 2, 2008
You might think I’d object to animal-human hybrid embryos on moral grounds. I do, but it’s their bad science I really take exception to. (Guardian Unlimited)
April 1, 2008
Scientists in the UK claim to have made embryos using cow eggs and human DNA through SCNT. Although the work has yet to be verified via peer review, Newcastle scientists told the press that the embryos lasted three days. From … Read More
April 1, 2008
Scientists at Newcastle University have created part-human, part-animal hybrid embryos for the first time in the UK, the BBC can reveal. The embryos survived for up to three days and are part of medical research into a range of illnesses. … Read More
April 1, 2008
“There’s a consensus in the scientific community that it’s wrong and scientifically unsafe to use this technology for reproductive purposes. Our goal is to basically clone cells in a petri dish so that we can create replacement parts for the … Read More
April 1, 2008
Some critics imply that research on adult stem cells (for instance from bone marrow) could substitute for all the use of embryonic stem cells. My research colleagues strongly deny this, but see the possibility that knowledge from stem-cell research might … Read More
April 1, 2008
Whenever most people hear the term “egg donor,†they usually consider this a good thing, as most of us assume that anyone who donates is altruistically motivated and thus engaged in something intrinsically good. And besides, it’s for a great … Read More
March 31, 2008
In an exclusive interview with The Times, Sir Leszek, chief executive of the Medical Research Council, said that in spite of Church teachings on the issue he saw nothing in the experiments or the plans by the Government to regulate … Read More
March 28, 2008
These “embryo clauses” will allow the creation of human embryos for no other purpose than to harvest their body parts. Similarly, a growing number of MPs have concerns about clauses that will allow human tissue to be fertilised with animal … Read More
March 27, 2008
The 2006 amendment approved by voters made it a crime to “clone or attempt to clone a human being.†But it allowed a procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer as long as a cloned embryo is not implanted in … Read More
March 27, 2008
Sir Ian Wilmut, who led the team which created the clone Dolly the sheep, said he respected the views of religious figures such as Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, who has condemned the use … Read More
March 26, 2008
LB 606 prohibits the use of state money, facilities or resources to conduct research that destroys human embryos or that creates cloned embryos for research or reproduction. The new law also will provide grants to encourage stem cell research by … Read More
March 24, 2008
Therapeutic cloning has been successfully used to treat Parkinson’s disease in mice, US researchers say. The study in Nature Medicine provides the best evidence so far that the controversial technique could one day help people with the condition. (BBC)
March 17, 2008
Victoriano del R¿o has a favorite animal, a majestic bull named Alcalde, who is nearing the end of his days after faithfully and lucratively siring more than 400 offspring. Loath to see him go, del R¿o is paying a company … Read More
March 17, 2008
The government’s new fertility bill is under fire on religious, moral and even scientific grounds. (Times Online)
March 14, 2008
Male and female sand dollars typically reproduce by releasing sperm and eggs into the water where they join and become baby larvae. Sand dollar larvae had previously been observed cloning themselves to accelerate a population boom when food is abundant. … Read More
March 13, 2008
When voters swallowed the Proposition 71 snake oil and went billions into debt in a state already drowning in red ink to chase the rainbow of human cloning, they had no idea that the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine would … Read More
February 21, 2008
A state legislative committee has modified the stem cell bill headed for floor debate, removing a section about reproductive cloning that had irked groups opposing any use of human embryos for cloning purposes. (AP)
February 21, 2008
The ballot proposal would reverse part of a constitutional amendment narrowly approved by voters in 2006 that ensured all federally allowed stem cell research and treatments can occur in Missouri. That measure allowed the use of an embryonic cloning technique, … Read More
February 20, 2008
I admit that I am pleasantly surprised. The pro cloning bias among the political elite and media in Missouri make it almost impossible to get the straight information to the people of MO about this crucial ethical issue. When a … Read More
February 19, 2008
Less than a dozen years after Dolly the sheep became the world’s first cloned mammal, grocers and restaurateurs are digesting the fact that milk and meat from cloned animals could soon filter into their supply chains. (San Francisco Chronicle)
