Each therapeutic cloning attempt would require one human egg. If it takes one hundred tries per patient for a cloned embryonic stem cell line to be successfully created, therapeutic cloning will never ...

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 ...

Nov. 5 -- Remember human cloning? Less than a year ago, the leader of a religious sect known as the Raelians claimed they had produced the first human clone and named her "Eve." Then no evidence of ...

UNITED NATIONS, March 8 -- -- The U.N. General Assembly adopted a declaration Tuesday that calls on governments to ban all forms of human cloning that are "incompatible with human dignity and the ...

When U.S. biotech firm advanced Cell Technology announced last week that it had cloned the first human embryo, Europeans greeted the news with a mixture of interest, suspicion and revulsion.

Does it open the door to ‘therapeutic cloning’? A new report from the President’s Council on Bioethics calls for a ban on reproductive cloning—or “attempts to conceive a child by any means other than ...

What will the US Senate actually do about therapeutic cloning--the procedure of using nuclear transfer to derive embryonic stem cells? The saga continues with the sudden plot changes, reversals of ...

Just when you thought the issue of human cloning had been relegated to the background, it resurfaces once more to offer further proof that certain members of the House of Representatives just can't ...

Cloning is a biotechnological process that involves creating genetically identical copies of an organism or cell. In essence, a clone is an exact genetic replica of the original organism or cell, ...

To one side, it's making research ethical. To another, it's a research killer. A proposed Minnesota law that would make human cloning a felony offense is reigniting the contentious debate over cloning ...

One of a group of leading French scientists who have called on the government to lift a ban on human therapeutic cloning, told The Scientist this week that he is hopeful that the law will soon be ...

LONDON -- The Scottish scientist who created Dolly the sheep more than a decade ago said he is abandoning the technique he pioneered, according to an interview published Saturday. Ian Wilmut, who led ...