Scientists say they’ll go ahead anyway. Lawmakers, seeking to rein in the scientific appetite for human experimentation, are attempting to ban human cloning. On July 31, the House approved a bill, 265 ...

An entirely appropriate stew of scientific vexation and mortification has accompanied revelations that the incredible Korean achievements in human embryonic cloning and stem cell research are exactly ...

A Dec. 26 front-page article about human cloning legislation incorrectly reported the location of a recent meeting between Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and representatives of a Massachusetts biotech ...

Stanford University announced yesterday it would create an institute to develop medical therapies from human embryonic stem cells, the promising but controversy-laden cells found inside human embryos.

The British parliament has voted to allow the cloning of human embryos, despite a united appeal by the country’s religious leaders urging delay. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the two most senior Roman ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- As they spar over stem cell research, both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry say they want to develop the technique so it can cure such afflictions as Alzheimer's disease and ...

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 ...

SEATTLE - In a clash of politics and science, the first successful cloning of a human embryo - and the extraction of stem cells from it - has ignited new calls for a ban on all forms of human cloning ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Hundreds of opponents of embryonic stem-cell research crammed the Capitol halls Wednesday urging a statewide election on whether to overturn a voter-approved constitutional ...

WASHINGTON -- After a lengthy debate on science and human life, the House on Thursday passed a bill endorsed by President Bush that would ban human cloning and sentence violators to prison and fines ...

If there is one thing that people on both sides of the cloning debate agree upon, it’s that cloning is an incredibly inefficient process. When it comes to cloning animals, like Dolly and Snuppy, the ...

Twenty-seven years ago, Ty Lawrence began to be haunted by a slab of meat. The carcass, which he spotted at a slaughterhouse while doing research as a graduate student, defied the usual laws of nature ...