June 19, 2007
Scientists extract stem cells from cloned primate embryos
U.S. scientists say they have for the first time extracted stem cells from cloned primate embryos, bringing human therapeutic cloning one step closer. (Cbc.ca)
Cloning
June 19, 2007
Op-Ed: Women carry cloning burden
NSW politicians seem to think that the thousands of eggs needed for human cloning will magically fall out the sky. That’s the impression you get reading through the speeches on the cloning Bill in the Lower House last week. You … Read More
June 18, 2007
British body backs inter-species clones
Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed because of the benefits to science and medicine, British experts said in a report released for Sunday. (Reuters)
June 12, 2007
More Bad Science Reporting on Cloning
I grow weary: Science journalists should report science matters accurately, without spin and the usual hype seen in the ESCR/human cloning debates. Alas, we don’t see much of that in this report, byline Dave Mosher of LiveScience. The story is … Read More
June 12, 2007
Australia: Op-Ed: Science at odds with believers
In the philosophy of those who retain a moral objection to scientific research in the area of human cloning, the crux of the matter is simple; killing a human being cannot be sanctioned in any civilized society for any purpose … Read More
June 12, 2007
Op-Ed: Cloning by any other name is still cloning
The stem-cell debate can be painful. It deals with life-and-death issues, often involving suffering people desperate for anything that might help; and it tends to be dominated by one-sided, disingenuous propaganda. But the tide may be turning. (Jewish World Review)
June 11, 2007
Would-Be Human Cloners Stymied by Egg Dearth–Again
Human cloning researchers are again whining that their important work is being held back by a lack of human eggs. This time, it is researchers from Harvard, as reported a few days ago in the Boston Globe. From the story: … Read More
June 11, 2007
Op-Ed: Pelosi stifles debate on Human Cloning Act
When the Democrats recaptured the House last fall, Nancy Pelosi promised America that Republican legislative fakery was at an end. (The Buffalo News)
June 8, 2007
Nancy Pelosi’s “Amen Moment”
Senator John Edwards was justly ridiculed when he stated in 2004 that people in wheelchairs would be able to walk if John Kerry were elected, because he would alter President Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding policy. This bit of outrageous … Read More
June 8, 2007
Australia: Defiant vote for cloning in NSW
Cardinal George Pell was delivered a stunning rebuff yesterday when the NSW lower house voted by an overwhelming majority to support stem cell laws that permit therapeutic cloning. A large number of prominent Catholic MPs, including the Premier Morris Iemma … Read More
June 7, 2007
Logic, Defied or Defiled?
On 6 June 2007, the House of Representatives voted on HR 2560, a “bill to ban reproductive cloning.†Of those voting, 190 of the 221 Democrats, and 14 of 196 Republicans voted for it, resulting in a rejection of the … Read More
June 7, 2007
House rejects bill to ban human cloning
Mostly Republican lawmakers defeated a Democratic bid on Wednesday to outlaw cloning of human babies, concurring with the White House that the effort was flawed and would still permit destruction of life because it would allow embryos to be created … Read More
June 6, 2007
Phony Cloning Ban Loses in House
Legislation that redefines human cloning so that it legalizes it while purporting to ban it altogether is all the rage these days among Big Biotech boosters. An attempt to pass such a phony ban in the Congress lost today by … Read More
June 6, 2007
The Real Reason James Sherley Was Denied Tenure by MIT?
James Shirley, the biologist was denied tenure by MIT. An African-American, he claims racism. I suspect (but cannot prove) however, that it is his anti-human cloning and ESCR mindset that caused his denial–which is highlighted in “A Stem-Cell Heretic Makes … Read More
June 5, 2007
Pell cloning threat to MPs backfires
INTERVENTION by Cardinal George Pell against a NSW bill for stem cell research appears to have backfired, angering some MPs and strengthening their support for the proposal. (The Australian)
June 1, 2007
Sydney Anglicans Prepare Motion To Oppose NSW Stem Cell Research
The Anglican Archbishop of NSW, Dr. Peter Jensen is preparing to put a motion at this weekend Provincial Synod requesting that it opposes the NSW Premier’s plan to lift the ban on stem cell research in a new bill. (Christian … Read More
May 30, 2007
New South Wales conscience vote on cloning
NSW MPs will be allowed a conscience vote on controversial new laws which will overturn a five-year ban on cloning of embryonic stem cells for scientific research. (The Daily Telegraph)
May 25, 2007
Issues in Biomedicine and Ethics: Free articles from Zygon
Blackwell Publishing has made available a number of free articles from Zygon 42(1) as a promotional of their e-journal service. These articles are usually available by subscription only. TOC: (Free Articles) Ann Milliken Pederson, “South Dakota and Abortion: A Local … Read More
May 23, 2007
Animal Cloning Not Progressing Very Fast
It has been more than ten years since Dolly was cloned. Yet, for all of the animal cloning that has gone on, apparently the science of somatic cell nuclear transfer has not progressed very far. An article in Science by … Read More
May 16, 2007
Australia: Embryonic Stem Cell Research A Step Closer To Reproductive Cloning
Senator Ron Boswell, the Leader of The Nationals in the Senate, at a breakfast function said that a vote for cloning in the Queensland parliament, is not just a vote on creating a human embryo to destroy it but it … Read More
May 15, 2007
As Demand for Donor Eggs Soars, High Prices Stir Ethical Concerns
Samantha Carolan was 23 and fresh out of graduate school when she decided to donate eggs to an infertile couple. Ms. Carolan concedes that she would never have done it if not for the money, $7,000 that she used to … Read More
May 15, 2007
UCI to attempt therapeutic cloning
UC Irvine will become one of the few centers in the world with a major program in therapeutic cloning, the controversial attempt to generate embryonic stem cells from people who suffer such afflictions as spinal cord injuries and Parkinson’s disease. … Read More
May 15, 2007
Op-Ed: Jennifer Lahl: Minimally invasive? More like reckless endangerment
John T. Gill, chairman of the Texas Healthcare Task Force, and Texas GOP Rep. Pete Sessions – to promote embryonic stem cell research – are telling everyone they can, including members of Congress, that egg harvesting from women is a … Read More
May 14, 2007
Op-Ed: The perils of cloning – Little sheep, little sheep: – Who made thee?
This past February the unexpected deaths of two cloned sheep hardly made the headlines amidst all the drumbeating toward a war in Iraq. (Yemen Times)
May 10, 2007
Pastures new for trailblazer
Prof Wilmut has transfered his research interests from animals to human biology, and in 2005 he moved from Roslin to Edinburgh University, where he holds the chair of reproductive science. He has subsequently become director of the Scottish Centre for … Read More
