AFTER A FAILED EFFORT to ban human cloning in 1998, Congress has taken up the issue once again. There have been hearings in both the House and the Senate, testimony from fertility doctors and cult ...

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, ...

LONDON -- British lawmakers have approved an emergency bill barring scientists from using cloning techniques to produce babies, and Queen Elizabeth II is expected to approve the measure next week. The ...

Does it open the door to ‘therapeutic cloning’? A new report from the President’s Council on Bioethics calls for a ban on reproductive cloning—or “attempts to conceive a child by any means other than ...

We think of science as a clean and logical place where, with the right skills and instruments, you can see the world in a grain of sand. So what happens when you cross science with a circus full of ...

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. That ...

IAN WILMUT, the co-creator of Dolly the Sheep, now intends to clone human life. This is quite a shift for Wilmut. When he and Keith Campbell entered the science pantheon with their announcement of the ...

Scientists from across the world, many from the developing world, will call for a worldwide ban on human reproductive cloning at a UN meeting next week. The UN committee has been looking at the ...

LONDON The Royal Society —an independent body of scientists in the UK — has called for an international moratorium on human reproductive cloning, in a report published on June 20. The report was ...

Here's some background information about cloning, a process of creating an identical copy of an original. Facts:Reproductive Cloning is the process of making a full living copy of an organism.