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)
September 23, 2008
Australian officials are expected to grant a patent this week to a disgraced South Korean scientist for his disputed technology on cloning human embryos, a move that his supporters say would vindicate his work. Hwang Woo-suk’s purported breakthroughs in cloning stem … Read More
August 19, 2008
Stem cell and cloning guru Robert Lanza has battled the Catholic Church, the White House, and violent protesters. (DISCOVER)
August 18, 2008
SINGAPOREANS are divided over the idea of allowing scientists to mix the genetic material of animals and humans, according the latest findings of an ongoing public consultation. (Straits Times)
August 13, 2008
In January, renowned scientists and researchers lauded the success of Stemagen Corp., a small biotechnology firm in La Jolla, when it became the first to document the successful cloning of human embryos by fusing donated egg cells with the DNA … Read More
August 5, 2008
Woman paid $50,000 to Korean lab to turn skin cells from pet into embryos. (MSNBC)
August 4, 2008
In the health care ministry, difficult ethical problems often arise that threaten human dignity and demand enlightened and informed responses and interventions. Living wills, physician-assisted suicide, human cloning, embryonic stem cell research, organ donation, withdrawal of nutrition and hydration from … Read More
August 1, 2008
The South Korean government on Friday barred disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk from resuming his research into cloned human embryonic stem cells. (Reuters)
July 31, 2008
This is a tale of two stories: I have long said that what I call the “egg dearth” will stymie the drive by biotechnologists to engage in human cloning research. That is happening now, and the scientists are none too … Read More
July 31, 2008
Facing a human egg shortage they say is preventing medical breakthroughs, scientists and biotech entrepreneurs are pushing the country’s top funders of stem cell research to rethink rules that prohibit paying women for eggs. (San Francisco Chronicle)
July 25, 2008
The European Commission is currently mulling whether food derived from cloned animals should be allowed — and the report from the European Food Safety Authority is meant to provide a scientific basis for its reflections. However, the European Union’s executive … Read More
July 24, 2008
Scientific American, an anything goes pro-cloning magazine, has two articles out dealing with the future of human cloning. The focus is on Ian Wilmut, who administered the team that cloned Dolly, who planned to pursue human SCNT cloning but then … Read More
July 15, 2008
THE BRITISH PARLIAMENTʼS decision on May 19 to allow laboratories in Britain to create a new kind of embryo, part human and part animal, was hailed as a victory for science over religious (and specifically Catholic) doctrine. (Catholic News)
July 14, 2008
Well-researched and current to the fast-moving field of stem cell research — using both embryonic and “adult” cells — Russell Korobkin navigates the complex interaction of laws, legal precedents, patents, and public policy. However, this book comes up short of … Read More
July 1, 2008
This marks the third animal-human hybrid embryo licence to be issued by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the first since the Commons voted in favour of this controversial research last month. (Telegraph)
June 27, 2008
Governor Bobby Jindal has signed into law legislation that would ban government funding in Louisiana for what is sometimes called “therapeutic cloning.” (Houma Today)
June 23, 2008
Gov. Ted Strickland’s first showdown with the Legislature on abortion politics was an easy victory: A stroke of his veto pen allowed state spending on human cloning that the Legislature had voted to ban. (Akron Beacon Journal)
June 20, 2008
The team, from the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, said the cloned Tibetan mastiff dogs were born in April, two months after being requested by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (New York Times)
June 19, 2008
Scientists claim they have cured advanced skin cancer for the first time using the patient’s own cells cloned outside the body. (BBC)
June 16, 2008
Is the juggernaut of therapeutic cloning grinding slowly to a halt? Recently (Tuesday, May 6) a bill authorising it in Western Australia failed on a conscience vote in the upper house by a vote of 18 to 15. WA Premier … Read More
June 16, 2008
A loophole in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill could permit some reproductive cloning without the need for fresh primary legislation, the Government has admitted. (Times Online)
