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

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 ...

CLONING ADVOCATES are playing a shell game with the American people. At the federal level, they advocate the legalization of human cloning but assert that cloned embryos should be destroyed after 14 ...

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 ...

Human reproductive cloning is currently the subject of much debate around the world, involving a variety of ethical, religious, societal, scientific, and medical issues. This report from the National ...

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 ...

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, ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...