Two groups at Harvard University announced on Tuesday that they have received approval to start human-cloning research aimed at creating lines of embryonic stem cells to study and treat diseases. “We ...

We are already so broke that it sounds like a ridiculous notion. But that is precisely what Big Biotech and the academic researchers, who would be the recipients of a 10-year, $3 billion-plus-interest ...

Can one be an advocate for embryonic stem cell research while opposing human cloning experimentation? That's the question facing about 30 U.S. senators who have not yet taken a position on human ...

Only a handful of laboratories around the world are pursuing human-cloning experiments. Researchers at Harvard are now trying to get approval from university and hospital review boards to start their ...

An Italian infertility doctor announced this month that more than 700 barren patients have signed up with him for human cloning experiments. Other scientists were so shocked that a doctor would test ...

Once again the ethical markers are being moved. What was once the stuff of sci-fi novels -- the creation of human life in order to experiment on it -- is being described as a moral imperative. How can ...

The cloning era began when Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996. Dolly was cloned via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). This is accomplished by removing the nucleus from a skin or other cell ...

THE SENATE will shortly take up one of the most pressing moral, ethical, and scientific issues of our time: the Brownback proposal to outlaw human cloning. Two alternative proposals would ban only ...

Scientists in Massachusetts said yesterday they had succeeded in creating the world's first cloned human embryos, a controversial advance intended to speed the development of new medical therapies but ...

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's premature and ill-informed condemnation of the human cloning experiments of a private Massachusetts company was in sharp contrast to his prolonged pondering over whether ...

Researchers in China have successfully cloned the first rhesus monkey, a species widely used in medical research because of its physiological similarity to humans. The monkey, named Retro, is now more ...