March 17, 2009
China imposes temporary ban on clinical use of therapeutic cloning
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)
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March 16, 2009
Op-Ed: The Rules on Stem Cells
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
Korea to Join Stem Cell Race
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
Op-Ed: A Clone by Any Other Name
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
Korean egg-donor lawsuit thrown out of court
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)
March 5, 2009
Bill Would Ban Sex-Selection Abortion, Cloning
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
Italian doctor says he has cloned three babies
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
ESC Research Advocates Pressure President Obama for Action
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: No to human cloning
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
Committee again sidesteps cloning research bid
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
Chinese scientists clone 5 human embryos for research
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
Controversial hybrid embryos ‘are no use to science” new research suggests
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
Research Breakthrough: Human Clones May Be Genetically Viable
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
Study questions usefulness of animal-human embryos
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
SKorean firm says it cloned dogs using stem cells
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
Couple welcomes home cloned dog
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
The dilemma on the tip of a needle
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
Vatican condemns cloning, stem cell research
The Vatican on Friday condemned techniques that manipulate embryos including cloning and stem cell research, saying they undermine human dignity. (AFP)
December 10, 2008
UK: ‘Hybrid embryo’ legal block lost
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
A History of Cloning
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
Singapore: Ok to compensate egg donors
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
Cloning from the grave: Scientists create new life from a mouse that has been frozen for 16 YEARS
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
Extinct animals may be back but don’t hold your breath over mammoth
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 recover sibling stem cell lines from discarded embryos
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
Australia: Ban on mixed emrbyos of human DNA and animal eggs to remain
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)
