June 2, 2009
The University of Minnesota is proceeding with embryonic stem cell research, despite an anti-abortion group’s claim that it is illegal under a new ban on the use of state tax dollars for human cloning. (TwinCities.com)
May 19, 2009
The Senate voted without debate or dissent today to outlaw research designed to create animal-human hybrids, a practice that is apparently not occurring in the state but is cast by legislative critics as a potential violation of Louisiana’s ethics and … Read More
May 15, 2009
Researchers at disgraced gene scientist Hwang Woo-suk’s Sooam Biotech Research Center claimed they have for the first time created cloned pig embryos and used them to make embryonic stem-cell lines. Scientists have successfully extracted stem cells from cloned primate embryos, … Read More
May 15, 2009
The Oklahoma House has overwhelmingly passed legislation to prohibit human cloning. Lawmakers voted 83-0 for the measure Friday and sent it to the Senate for final passage. (The Edmond Sun)
April 29, 2009
South Korea on Wednesday conditionally lifted a ban on stem cell research using human eggs, three years after outlawing the practice because a scientist was found to have faked his work. (PhysOrg)
April 28, 2009
As the Obama administration prepares to greatly expand the government’s investments in embryonic stem cell research, the next big biomedical research debate in Congress is shaping up: whether to allow government funding of experiments using cloned human embryos. (CQ Politics)
April 28, 2009
Government legal and ethical experts are to discuss whether families can ‘bank’ embryos not just for procreation but also for use by doctors to create personalised treatments for parents and their children. (Daily Mail)
April 24, 2009
A cloned beagle named Ruppy – short for Ruby Puppy – is the world’s first transgenic dog. She and four other beagles all produce a fluorescent protein that glows red under ultraviolet light. (New Scientist)
April 23, 2009
South Korean scientists said they have cloned a piglet whose organs were genetically modified to make them more suitable for human transplants. Lead scientist Lim Gio-Bin said the cloned piglet, born on April 3, had been genetically altered to lack … Read More
April 23, 2009
Two bills aimed at banning human reproductive cloning in Texas came up for public hearing in a House committee Tuesday. The sticking point may be how human cloning is defined in the proposals. (AP)
April 22, 2009
Controversial doctor filmed creating embryos before injecting them into wombs of women wanting cloned babies. (The Independent)
April 22, 2009
The latest advances in stem-cell research mean someone could some day become a biological single parent, the source of both the egg and the sperm needed to make a baby. (Globe and Mail)
April 20, 2009
When President Barack Obama eased limits on taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research, the big question became how far scientists could go. Friday, the government answered: They must use cells culled from fertility clinic embryos that otherwise would be thrown away. … Read More
April 17, 2009
The Obama administration today is announcing guidelines for government-sponsored embryonic stem cell research but the draft regulations would limit federal funding of work on human embryos donated at fertility clinics. (Washington Post)
April 17, 2009
Neurobiologist Maureen L. Condic investigates 11 common arguments in favor of embryonic stem-cell research, and explains why science may not need the controversial technique, after all. (The Daily Beast)
April 6, 2009
A University of Pittsburgh stem cell researcher has renewed his efforts to win a patent on a process to clone human embryonic stem cells, despite lingering questions from his past efforts. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
March 26, 2009
Ten members of the President’s Council on Bioethics published a statement today at the Hastings Center Bioethics Forum expressing disappointment with President Obama’s remarks and policies on the funding of embryonic stem cell research. They take the president to task … Read More
March 25, 2009
In lifting restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research this month, did President Obama leave the door open to human cloning? To hear Obama say it, the answer is unequivocally no. “We will ensure that our government never opens … Read More
March 19, 2009
Rep. Mike Castle said he may take on the issue of human cloning as he and Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado consider their next legislative move on stem cell research. (News Journal)
March 18, 2009
Here’s the final installment of the E-mail debate between conservative Catholic legal scholars Robby George and Doug Kmiec over whether President Obama’s executive order on embryonic stem cell research authorizes federally funded human cloning. In the first E-mail in this post, Kmiec responds … Read More
March 17, 2009
China’s Ministry of Health has issued temporary ban on clinical use of therapeutic cloning, effective from May 1,its official Web site said Tuesday. (Xinhua)
March 16, 2009
No sooner had President Obama lifted the Bush-era restrictions on financing embryonic stem cell research than critics began urging that any federal support be limited to work with stem cells derived from surplus embryos at fertility clinics. That would be … Read More
March 11, 2009
The National Bioethics Committee last month delayed its decision over whether to allow the Seoul-based Cha Medical Center to conduct research on embryonic stem cells created from cloned human embryos. (Korea Times)
March 10, 2009
Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have asked on more than one occasion, “How many legs does a sheep have if you call its tail a leg?†When the respondent replied, “Five,†Honest Abe had a ready correction, something along the … Read More
March 5, 2009
Two women brought the lawsuit against the Korean government, MizMedi Hospital and Hanyang University Hospital in April 2006. The women had donated eggs for Hwang’s research at those hospitals. (Nature News)
