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cloning:

see cloneclone,
group of organisms, all of which are descended from a single individual through asexual reproduction, as in a pure cell culture of bacteria. Except for changes in the hereditary material that come about by mutation, all members of a clone are genetically identical.
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cloning

To make a product that functions like another. See clone. See also cloning software.

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February 27, 2002 - A House of Lords committee gives consent for UK scientists to pioneer the cloning of human embryos for research and set up the world's first embryo cell bank.

Key Developments in Cloning

So in a nutshell the advantages of cloning your champion horse this season are:

Horsecloning.com says royalty fees will replace stud fees for cloned horses

Bernard Siegel, head of the Genetics Policy Institute, a pro-therapeutic cloning lobby, declared victory, saying, "This is a very good result."

The U.N. vs. cloning: stem cell crackdown

While it is based in the San Francisco Bay area, the company's cloning work will be done at its new lab in Madison, Wisconsin.

First cloned-to-order cat sold in the US

But he told Congress that "the First Amendment protected this kind of research." Today, he believes it protects cloning experiments as well.

Cloning: a first amendment right: some legal, experts maintain that scientific research is protected by the same constitutional guarantees as freedom of speech

"We are opposed to any attempts toward human reproductive cloning," says Hwang--a view shared by many scientists.

Medical milestone: South Korean scientists have cloned human cells to help treat disease. Find out how, and why it could change the future

Now comes a fresh revelation of cloning, not by Raelians, but by Koreans.

Cloning advance spurs ethical quandaries: arguments point to unexpected turns in debate as age of cloned babies draws closer

Cloning via vegetative propagation has already provided substantial benefits in several forest species that are easily rooted, such as poplar species, some Eucalyptus, such as E.

Biotechnology in forestry: the promise and the economic reality

The Globe and Mail articles and the focus group participants shared the same hopes for body part cloning, but they differed regarding concerns.

Representations of cloning in the public sphere

Will it join the House of Representatives, which voted in July 2001 to make all human cloning illegal?

Let's make the world a no-clone zone: banning the use of cloning to create babies doesn't go far enough, argues ethicist M. Therese Lysaught. Even so-called "therapeutic" or "research" cloning involves the destruction of human embryos and therefore is not only problematic, but also immoral. (sounding board)

"Cloning a baby is just the first step" toward human immortality, said former French journalist Claude Vorihon, who calls himself Rael and claims to be a direct descendant of extraterrestrials who created life on earth through genetic engineering.

Attack of the clones: as cloning technology marches forward, state legislatures are faced with some hard decisions

Boisselier said she has received 55 cloning requests from Israelis and Palestinians, attributing this demand to the intifada.