The derivation of primate embryonic stem cells by nuclear transfer marks an advance toward human therapeutic cloning. It is often forgotten that the incentive to achieve cloning in vertebrates ...

I remain undecided on the issue of therapeutic cloning for biomedical research, however. This book did little, if anything, to influence my thinking or position on either of these matters ...

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 ...

American scientists seem to have forfeited their chance to convince the government to support research into therapeutic cloning as the source of a new generation of rational therapies. It was not ...

Reproductive cloning involves creating a genetically identical copy of an entire organism. The process involves transferring the nucleus of a donor cell into an enucleated egg cell, which then ...

These ethical concerns have prompted several nations to pass laws regarding human cloning and its legality. Two commonly discussed types of theoretical human cloning are therapeutic cloning and ...

Professor Hiroaki Matsubara and colleagues from Kyoto University Hospital has regenerated stem cells from cardiac muscle cells. The cardiac muscle cells were obtained from the heart tissue of ...

The UN committee has been looking at the possibility of issuing a declaration to endorse a ban on cloning, but consensus has been hampered by disagreements over the scope of such a ban, especially ...