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 ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Scientists in South Korea recently announced a breakthrough in research on human cloning. The research team has successfully cloned human embryos, extracting stem cells from them.

Last month, we said that human reproductive cloning should be banned and embryonic stem cell research encouraged. In the United States, stem cell research has become an election-year issue, although ...

WASHINGTON — Cloning human beings for the purpose of reproduction is medically unsafe and should be banned but cloning for disease research should be allowed, a panel of the National Academy of ...

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 ...