Two groups at Harvard University have announced that they have received approval to start human-cloning research designed to create lines of embryonic stem cells to study and treat diseases. “We are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo collage of rhesus monkeys on top of microscope photography of cells. Researchers in China have successfully cloned the first ...

CLONING ADVOCATES are playing a shell game with the American people. At the federal level, they advocate the legalization of human cloning but assert that cloned embryos should be destroyed after 14 ...

Only a handful of laboratories around the world are pursuing human-cloning experiments. Researchers at Harvard are now trying to get approval from university and hospital review boards to start their ...

The cloning era began when Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996. Dolly was cloned via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). This is accomplished by removing the nucleus from a skin or other cell ...

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 ...

Scientists in Massachusetts said yesterday they had succeeded in creating the world's first cloned human embryos, a controversial advance intended to speed the development of new medical therapies but ...

Human reproductive cloning is currently the subject of much debate around the world, involving a variety of ethical, religious, societal, scientific, and medical issues. This report from the National ...

Researchers in China have successfully cloned the first rhesus monkey, a species widely used in medical research because of its physiological similarity to humans. The monkey, named Retro, is now more ...