WASHINGTON -- The announcement by a U.S. company that it has cloned a human embryo for the first time has set off a heated debate on the ethics of the research, with the company on Monday staunchly ...

Cloning human organs has sparked intense interest and debate in recent years, drawing attention from scientific, ethical, and medical communities. The potential for cloning human organs presents ...

LONDON - Britain granted its first license for human cloning Wednesday, joining South Korea on the leading edge of stem cell research, which is restricted by the Bush administration and which many ...

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 ...

AUSTIN -- A debate over when life begins for a clone is brewing in the background of a bill passed Thursday by the Texas Senate to ban the cloning of human beings. Scientists have said the cloning ...

"Glossary of terms"--P. 267-270. Also available online. Few avenues of scientific inquiry raise more thorny ethical questions than the cloning of human beings, a radical way to control our DNA. In ...

LONDON - Britain granted its first license for human cloning Wednesday, joining South Korea on the leading edge of stem cell research, which is restricted by the Bush administration and which many ...

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With all the work to do, people to see, traffic jams to get stuck in, we all sometimes wish we could be in two places at once. We’ve already cloned sheep, cows, chickens, even monkeys. What if we ...

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 ...