The U.S. House of Representatives voted last week to ban human cloning with violations punishable by fines of $1 million US and prisons terms.

Some people suggested that human clones could play a role in eradicating genetic diseases, while others considered that the cloning process could, eventually, eliminate birth defects (despite ...

A: Cloning is the process of making a genetically identical animal,plant or human without the normal sexual reproductive process.This means that the cloned organism is created using DNA from a ...

In addition, the process of cloning a human is unethical because of the potential for it being turned into a system for harvesting organs and other body parts.

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 ...

Clonaid, a Bahamas-based company, purports to offer several services, including selling human eggs for $5,000; storing DNA samples for $50,000 so as to allow for a cloned replica if the individual ...

Pluripotent human embryonic stem cells have a unique ability to differentiate into any cell line. Although this has raised hopes that transplantation of stem cells may halt or reverse degenerative ...

The trouble with human reproductive cloning is twofold. First, the operation requires replacing the DNA in the nucleus of an ovum with the DNA of the person who wants to be genetically cloned.

The issues are some human embryos will be destroyed during the cloning process Different views will be held against or for the idea. Comparatively, some people think that destroying human embryos ...