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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

American scientists seem to have forfeited their chance to convince the government to support research into therapeutic cloning as the source of a new generation of rational therapies. It was not ...

The British parliament has voted to allow the cloning of human embryos, despite a united appeal by the country’s religious leaders urging delay. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the two most senior Roman ...

ST. LOUIS -- Adina Talve said she has never dreamed of being an athlete or an actress. Born with a congenital heart defect, she's already had four heart surgeries and may eventually need a transplant.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Without debate, Louisiana's state Senate has voted to forbid government funding of efforts to perform what is often called "therapeutic cloning" to develop embryonic stem ...

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, ...

We think of science as a clean and logical place where, with the right skills and instruments, you can see the world in a grain of sand. So what happens when you cross science with a circus full of ...