THE SENATE will shortly take up one of the most pressing moral, ethical, and scientific issues of our time: the Brownback proposal to outlaw human cloning. Two alternative proposals would ban only ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- With almost no debate, the Louisiana House has overwhelmingly voted to forbid the spending of government money on what is often called "therapeutic cloning." Backers of the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Without debate, Louisiana's state Senate has voted to forbid government funding of efforts to perform what is often called "therapeutic cloning" to develop embryonic stem ...

NPR's Joe Palca talks with Noah Adams about "therapeutic cloning." The House of Representatives is expected to vote today on two cloning bills: one would ban all cloning, while the other would permit ...

Congress has long been hostile to the idea of human cloning, but today the House was poised to make its disapproval official by legislating a ban on the controversial procedure. The big question was ...

Nearly three decades since the remarkable cloning of Dolly the sheep, it has all gone quiet on the human cloning front.

LONDON, August 18. A mixture of horror and excitement greeted the British government's decision this week to allow stem cell research and therapeutic cloning. For most scientists, the risk–benefit ...

ST. LOUIS -- Adina Talve said she has never dreamed of being an athlete or an actress. Born with a congenital heart defect, she's already had four heart surgeries and may eventually need a transplant.

Each therapeutic cloning attempt would require one human egg. If it takes one hundred tries per patient for a cloned embryonic stem cell line to be successfully created, therapeutic cloning will never ...

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, ...

The field of therapeutic cloning has long sought to provide a way to create replacement organs and tissues from a patient’s own cells, with the most recent boost coming from the US Advanced Research ...