WHAT’S LESS BAD: enacting a ban on so-called “reproductive” human cloning that explicitly authorizes cloning for research purposes, or passing no law at all prohibiting cloning in 2002? That is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A U.S. House of Representatives committee approved a bill last week that would ban all cloning of human embryos, whether for reproductive ends or for research. Many research organizations opposed the ...

Nov. 5 -- Remember human cloning? Less than a year ago, the leader of a religious sect known as the Raelians claimed they had produced the first human clone and named her "Eve." Then no evidence of ...

On Nov. 19, the United Nations decided to shelve efforts to obtain a global ban on all forms of human cloning. During the debate that preceded that decision, the Holy See outlined the moral and ...

Meet Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, two cloned macaque monkeys. Chinese scientists first unveiled these monkeys several weeks ago, marking the first time primates have been successfully cloned with the same ...

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 ...

In the Brave New World of cloning, most Jewish ethicists and organizations are staking out the middle ground. A general consensus appears to be emerging in the Jewish community that therapeutic ...

Larry Mantle talks with Greg Stock, best-selling author, and reproductive biology expert about his new book, Redesigning Humans (Houghton Mifflin). Stock considers how the human race is likely to ...

A U.S. House of Representatives committee approved a bill Tuesday that would ban all cloning of human embryos, whether for reproductive ends or for research. Many research organizations opposed the ...