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)
June 13, 2008
“Embryo: A Defense of Human Life” by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen is different. It delves beneath the surface of the current debate to analyze the ethical issue at stake. Embryonic stem-cell research confronts us with the question whether … Read More
June 9, 2008
AUSTRALIA’S first licences to clone human embryos could be granted as early as this week. A National Health and Medical Research Council panel met in Canberra on Friday to consider applications from two separate research groups. (The Daily Telegraph)
June 9, 2008
AUSTRALIA’S first application for a licence to clone human embryos for stem cell research should be knocked back because recent scientific discoveries have made the procedure redundant, critics say. Ethicists, religious heads and anti-cloning groups yesterday hit out at the … Read More
June 5, 2008
A major advance in transforming one kind of cell into another is reported today that will likely to render plans to clone human embryos redundant in the quest for revolutionary new treatments. (Telegraph)
June 3, 2008
An issue that has roiled Louisiana’s Legislature for years came to an unusually quick conclusion Tuesday when the state Senate, without debate, voted to ban government funding for what is sometimes called “therapeutic cloning.” (The Press Democrat)
