Human cloning is finally here, and it is going to spark a political conflagration. First, some background. The cloning era began when Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996. Dolly was cloned via ...

Clone is a word that is now commonly used in many contexts in the United States. For example, rather than purchasing a name-brand computer, we might purchase its clone, which provides close to the ...

The central question, however, is not whether cloning can be done. Science has already answered that question in part. The ...

After years of fiddling with human, mouse, rabbit, and cow cells, researcher Robert Lanza has declared that it's impossible to create human-animal hybrid embryos, but that human cloning appears to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Getty Images When Dolly the sheep was born, she sparked years of imagination about what cloning might someday do — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man in a gray suit, purple tie and glasses Rep. Phillip Rigsby, R-Huntsville, speaks to colleagues on the floor of the Alabama ...

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 ...

Melbourne, Jul 8 (The Conversation) When Dolly the sheep — the first cloned mammal — was born 30 years ago, she became one of the most famous animals in science history. Her arrival sparked ...

Back when it was no more than a cheesy science-fiction plot device, human cloning seemed like something that would eventually be revealed to a horrified world full-blown and fully grown–a monstrous ...

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, ...

Cheryl Davis, Palo Alto Although I strongly support the use of stem cells for genetic therapeutics, I am opposed to cloning human beings. The latter leads to eugenics on the one hand, and the ...

OSLO (Reuters) - The world faces a stark choice between banning cloning of humans or preparing ways to protect them from potential abuse or discrimination, a U.N. study said on Sunday. Experts at the ...