With an impasse in Congress, legislatures are now facing bills on researchFaced with an apparent deadlock in Congress, a growing number of state ALSO SEE: A Proliferation of State Bills on Cloning ...

Rhowan Ho is a first-year PhD student in marine biology with a focus on parasitology and science communication at Scripps ...

Researchers in South Korea on Thursday announced they succeeded in extracting stem cells from a cloned human embryo. Following a background report on the science behind the research, Margaret ...

The engineered egg is stimulated, and if the cloning works, an embryo comes into being through asexual reproduction. Once that happens, the cloning is complete.

The National Research Council panel’s report concluded that if a ban on reproductive cloning is imposed, it should only be revisited after a period of five years.

Alexander M. Capron, a professor of law and medicine at USC, was a member of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, which in 1997 recommended a moratorium on human reproductive cloning Short ...

One part of the subject deals with reproductive cloning -- the attempt to create a human being through manipulation of body cells. Virtually all scientific opinion is opposed to this kind of cloning.

Cloning and Reproductive Biology Larry Mantle talks with Greg Stock, best-selling author, and reproductive biology expert about his new book, Redesigning Humans (Houghton Mifflin).

Ethical concerns emerge from the prospect of human cloning and generating human embryos via parthenogenesis—meaning the reproduction of any organism from an unfertilized egg. Ethical issues associated ...

Reproductive cloning is unproven, risky and represents a “tragic misunderstanding” of human identity, according to Laurie Zoloth, director of the Jewish Studies Program at San Francisco State ...

Don’t ban cloning because it may be abused. What we should do is regulate the activities that may be abused, like human reproductive cloning.” No one doubts there’s a demand for human cloning.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Cloning human beings for the purpose of reproduction is medically unsafe and should be banned, a panel of the National Academy of Sciences concluded Friday. The scientific report ...