The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, which represents more than 4,000 international fertility experts, has renewed its moratorium on the cloning of human babies. The organisation ...

A newly discovered quirk of primate cell biology suggests that monkeys – and humans – are impossible to clone from adult cells using current techniques. The finding directly contradicts claims by ...

LONDON -- British lawmakers have approved an emergency bill barring scientists from using cloning techniques to produce babies, and Queen Elizabeth II is expected to approve the measure next week. The ...

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 ...

Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- Cloning human beings for the purpose of reproduction is medically unsafe and should be banned but cloning to treat diseases should be allowed, a National ...

For America, the lesson is clear: The only way to stop human reproductive cloning is to ban all human cloning, and to ban it now. There is no middle ground here, not merely because the principles ...

Scientists from across the world, many from the developing world, will call for a worldwide ban on human reproductive cloning at a UN meeting next week. The UN committee has been looking at the ...

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 ...

LONDON The Royal Society —an independent body of scientists in the UK — has called for an international moratorium on human reproductive cloning, in a report published on June 20. The report was ...

WASHINGTON — Competing bills will come up in the U.S. Senate this month to regulate human cloning. Proponents of the bills all claim that their measures will ban the procedure. But some would actually ...

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 ...

President Barack Obama’s position on human cloning was debated in a recent email exchange between Doug Kmiec and Robert P. George, with George insisting the president’s stated opposition to ...