June 2, 2015
(Politico) – Americans are increasingly taking their laissez-faire attitude outside of the marketplace and into the moral arena. A new Gallup poll released Monday found the numbers of Americans that believe cloning humans, polygamy, having extramarital affairs, and suicide are … Read More
April 17, 2015
(The New Yorker) – Genetic research has lately progressed so far that, this year, a group of scientists and practitioners gathered in Napa, California, to urge a ban on modifying the genetic material of human sperm, eggs, and embryos, a … Read More
April 14, 2015
(Arab News) – Experiments or research in human cloning is an offense punishable by law and any violation means a fine of SR200,000 and six months in jail. According to a new law on ethics in the research of synthetic … Read More
February 11, 2015
(Science) – The scientist who once fraudulently claimed to have created embryonic stem cells matched to human patients and the one who really did it plan to conduct joint research, a Korean newspaper reported this morning. A Chinese regenerative medicine … Read More
November 21, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Mouse cells and tissues created through nuclear transfer can be rejected by the body because of a previously unknown immune response to the cell’s mitochondria, according to a study in mice by researchers at the Stanford University … Read More
November 19, 2014
(The Guardian) – I’m a paleobiologist at the Natural History Museum in London, and I live, sleep and dream mammoths. I doubt that there are many people in the world who would like to see a real-life woolly mammoth as … Read More
November 7, 2014
(Phys.org) – A team led by New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute scientists conducted a study comparing induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells and embryonic stem cells created using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). The scientists found that the … Read More
October 24, 2014
(Associated Press) – The whistleblower who exposed breakthrough cloning research as a devastating fake says South Korea is still dominated by the values that allowed science fraudster Hwang Woo-suk to become an almost untouchable national hero. In an interview with … Read More
October 24, 2014
(Bloomberg Businessweek) – Originally the procedure had been scheduled for Sooam’s headquarters in Seoul, where Hwang, 61, runs the only facility on earth that clones dogs for customers willing to pay $100,000. He led the team that cloned the first … Read More
September 15, 2014
(Reuters) – A Kentucky man, who made international news for saying he was trying to clone humans, must close or sell his business after pleading guilty to a federal charge that he misled customers about in-home fertility kits, according to … Read More
July 10, 2014
Public Understanding of Science (Vol. 23, No. 5, July 2014) is now available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Speech acts and performances of scientific citizenship: Examining how scientists talk about therapeutic cloning” by Nicola J. Marks “Making sense of autism: Progressive … Read More
July 3, 2014
(Phys.org) – Researchers around the world have turned to stem cells, which have the potential to develop into any cell type in the body, for potential regenerative and disease therapeutics. Now, for the first time, researchers at the Salk Institute, … Read More
July 2, 2014
(Nature) – Scientists have established two ways to take differentiated cells from one person and generate stem cells capable of forming all cell types in the body — most recently by cloning. Research published today in Nature compares genetically identical … Read More
June 30, 2014
(New York Times) – In August 1996, at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., a 39-year-old mechanical engineer from Pittsburgh named Maureen Ott became pregnant. Ott had been trying for almost seven years to conceive a child through in … Read More
June 9, 2014
(Science World Report) – Robert Lanza is continuing his extensive studies in the world of stem cell research. Following his successful cloning of embryonic stem cells using skin cells of two different men, he is now looking to utilize stem … Read More
June 3, 2014
(Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News) – Four studies published in recent weeks are giving researchers new hope that key hurdles hobbling stem cell research can finally be overcome—while renewing fears that the reported advances will lead to reproductive cloning.
May 26, 2014
(Forbes) – One thing the recent cloning breakthroughs have highlighted is the lack of engagement with the issue from the bioethical perspective. In the space of a year, three different teams have succeeded in deriving embryonic stem cells from cloned … Read More
May 19, 2014
(Forbes) – With the progress of two teams generating human embryonic stem cells from adult patients by means of cloning, scientists are one step closer to another means of delivering patient-specific treatments in the clinic. In mid April, Cell Stem … Read More
May 14, 2014
(Science) – Dolly the sheep enjoyed a brief and highly publicized life as the first mammal cloned from an adult cell before succumbing to lung disease in 2003 at age 6. But an attempt to patent Dolly, and lay commercial … Read More
May 9, 2014
(Bloomberg Businessweek) – The Scottish scientists famous for concocting “Dolly” the sheep lost a bid to get U.S. patent protection for the cloned animal, as a court said their creations are just genetic copies of naturally occurring beings. The Roslin … Read More
April 30, 2014
(Nature) – This repeated cloning of embryos and generation of stem cells, now using cells collected from adults, increases the likelihood that human embryos will be produced to generate therapy for a specific individual. The creation of more human embryos … Read More
April 30, 2014
(Nature) – Two research groups have independently produced human embryonic stem-cell lines from embryos cloned from adult cells. Their success could reinvigorate efforts to use such cells to make patient-specific replacement tissues for degenerative diseases, for example to replace pancreatic … Read More
April 29, 2014
(Time) – Is donating eggs to scientists for a research study any different from donating eggs to a couple hoping to have a baby using in vitro fertilization (IVF)? That’s a question that stem cell researchers — and policy makers … Read More
April 21, 2014
(Washington Post) – Scientists have grown stem cells from adults using cloning techniques for the first time — bringing them closer to developing patient-specific lines of cells that can be used to treat a whole host of ailments, from heart … Read More
April 18, 2014
(The Wall Street Journal) – Scientists for the first time have cloned cells from two adults to create early-stage embryos, and then derived tissue from those embryos that perfectly matched the DNA of the donors. The experiment represents another advance … Read More
