The blood stem cells of the zebrafish present in different colors, almost like a rainbow-themed barcode that shows off their diversity. The scientists used CRISPR to introduce genetic mutations ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Thomas Murray about how the discovery that eggs and sperm can be made from embryonic stem cells might change the debate over stem cell research and cloning. Murray ...

Teruhiko Wakayama and colleagues from the University of Yamanashi set out to expand on this by using freeze-dried somatic cells to provide the genetic material needed for cloning. Taking a sample ...

So far, the US government has already placed restrictions on federal funding for new stem cell lines derived from in vitro fertilized embryos, and the Senate is deliberating over a ban on cloning that ...

After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned ...

A June 14 article about the Senate's debate over cloning incorrectly said Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) advocates a ban on human cell cloning. His bill would ban cloning of human embryos. (Published ...

Facts Reproductive Cloning is the process of making a full living copy of an organism. Reproductive cloning of animals transplants nuclei from body cells into eggs that have had their nucleus removed.

Stem Cells and Cloning in the Public Eye From golden rice to global warming, science makes headlines these days like never before. Not since Dolly the sheep made her debut five years ago did a ...

In 2006, while investigations into the human stem cell cloning scandal were underway, Dr. Hwang founded Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, a private dog-cloning enterprise, with financial support ...

February 22, 1997 – Scientists reveal Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from cells of an adult animal. She was actually born on July 5, 1996. 1998 – More than 50 mice are ...

For many people, extinction is a term that refers to the past. It’s meant for dinosaurs, woolly mammoths and so many other species only found in textbooks or on display at museums. “Extinction ...