March 5, 2009
Bills introduced in the Minnesota Legislature would ban sex-selection abortions and human cloning in the state. Advocates of banning sex-selection abortions say new technologies are making it possible to determine the sex of a child within weeks of conception. The … Read More
March 4, 2009
A controversial Italian doctor known for his work allowing post-menopausal women to have children has claimed in an interview to have cloned three babies who are now living in eastern Europe. (PhysOrg)
February 20, 2009
During the campaign, President Obama promised to lift President Bush’s tight restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell (ESC) research—a policy limiting research to using lines in existence as of August 9, 2001, the date the policy was announced. … Read More
February 10, 2009
Singapore is standing firm on its ban on human cloning. Declaring that it is illegal, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan, however, said on Tuesday that science is evolving and the law must try to keep place. (Straits Times)
February 6, 2009
At a closed meeting yesterday, the National Bioethics Committee of the Health Ministry again deferred a decision on whether to approve Cha General Hospital’s plan to research human embryonic cloning. When the hospital hands in an improved plan, the committee … Read More
February 5, 2009
A Chinese team of scientists has succeeded in cloning five human blastulas for research purposes, the Shandong Stem Cell Engineering Research Center disclosed Wednesday. At a press conference held jointly with a hospital in Yantai, the experiment created five blastual … Read More
February 4, 2009
Attempts to mix human and animal cells together to make hybrid embryos for medical research may be doomed to failure, new research suggests. (Telegraph)
February 3, 2009
For the first time since Hwang Woo-Suk’s cloned stem cells were revealed as fakes, human cloning — for medical purposes, or even for reproduction — appears to be a realistic possibility. (Wired)
February 2, 2009
It may be futile to try producing stem cells by putting human DNA into cow or rabbit eggs and making hybrid cloned embryos, a strategy that triggered controversy recently in Britain, a new study says. The animal eggs don’t reprogram … Read More
January 30, 2009
A South Korean biotech company claimed Thursday to have cloned dogs using a stem cell technology for the first time in the world. (AP)
January 28, 2009
The 10-week-old golden Labrador retriever is a clone, created in South Korea by a California biotech firm from the DNA of the first Sir Lancelot: beloved pet of Ed and Nina Otto of Boca Raton, Fla. (PhysOrg)
January 27, 2009
Stem cell research may hold the key to future wonder cures. It is predicted that the market for stem cell clinical products could reach $8.5bn within a decade. But should we allow the medical patenting of human embryos? (New Statesman)
December 12, 2008
The Vatican on Friday condemned techniques that manipulate embryos including cloning and stem cell research, saying they undermine human dignity. (AFP)
December 10, 2008
Christian campaigners have lost their High Court challenge to scientists being allowed to create human-animal embryos for research purposes. The Christian Legal Centre and Comment on Reproductive Ethics were refused permission to bring a test case application for judicial review. … Read More
December 3, 2008
Though Dolly the sheep was the first clone to be shoved into the limelight, in 1996, the process of human-directed cloning has existed since 1952. In that year, American researchers Robert Briggs and Thomas King successfully removed the nucleus of … Read More
November 6, 2008
THE Ministry of Health supports the principle set by the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) to compensate women who donate their eggs for research for their loss of time and earnings. (Straits Times)
November 6, 2008
Scientists have created clones of a mouse that had been dead and frozen for 16 years. It is the first time they have been able to clone a frozen animal. The Japanese researchers say their work will benefit mankind – … Read More
November 4, 2008
Scientists say that they have taken a step closer to recreating extinct animals like the mammoth, after successfully cloning living mice from donor animals that had been frozen. (Times Online)
October 27, 2008
Scientists at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) here have derived two new sibling human embryonic stem (HES) cell lines from discarded human embryos. (Indian Express)
October 27, 2008
The ban in Australia on producing embryos that fuse human DNA and empty animal eggs will remain, despite a British vote legalising the inter-species creations for stem cell research. (The Australian)
October 23, 2008
How would you feel if your DNA were used without your permission to produce cloned human embryos for medical research? Regardless of whether it is right or wrong to experiment on human embryos, creating them would require either giving women … Read More
October 15, 2008
The permissibility of therapeutic cloning will be the focus of a United Nations ethics panel later this month when it considers whether a non-binding General Assembly declaration calling on Member States to ban all forms of human cloning should be … Read More
October 14, 2008
The permissibility of therapeutic cloning will be the focus of a United Nations ethics panel later this month when it considers whether a non-binding General Assembly declaration calling on Member States to ban all forms of human cloning should be … Read More
October 9, 2008
Most Europeans have reservations about cloning animals for food, while 67 percent see cloning as justified if used to preserve rare animal species, a survey that could help forge EU policy in the area showed on Thursday. (Reuters)
September 26, 2008
The in vitro fertilization clinic Sydney IVF has received Australia’s first license to conduct therapeutic cloning. The centre’s team will be one of a handful of groups worldwide trying to achieve the feat. (Nature)
