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.
So in a nutshell the advantages of
cloning your champion horse this season are:
Bernard Siegel, head of the Genetics Policy Institute, a pro-therapeutic
cloning lobby, declared victory, saying, "This is a very good result."
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.
But he told Congress that "the First Amendment protected this kind of research." Today, he believes it protects
cloning experiments as well.
"We are opposed to any attempts toward human reproductive
cloning," says Hwang--a view shared by many scientists.
Now comes a fresh revelation of
cloning, not by Raelians, but by Koreans.
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.
The Globe and Mail articles and the focus group participants shared the same hopes for body part
cloning, but they differed regarding concerns.
Will it join the House of Representatives, which voted in July 2001 to make all human
cloning illegal?
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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.
Boisselier said she has received 55
cloning requests from Israelis and Palestinians, attributing this demand to the intifada.
