Tag: cloning
Blog Posts (22)
May 15, 2013
Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Used to Create Human Embryonic Stem Cells
A international team including scientists from Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center have just announced in Cell that they have successfully used somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to develop human emb...January 22, 2013
Harvard Prof Isn't Recruiting Neanderthal Moms
Oh, good. This story isn't true. There isn't actually a Harvard professor who wants to recruit a woman to bear a Neanderthal child from an embryo constructed, using stem-cell and cloning technology, from Neanderthal bone DNA. Turns out there was some t...February 4, 2011
Caplan Discusses Ghosts of Bioethics' Present, Past and Future
On Point of Inquiry, Art Caplan discusses how bioethics has “come of age” and what questions are likely to engage the field in the future.…
June 7, 2010
Kagan on Bioethics
Hat tip to Business Week for shedding some light on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kegan’s views on bioethics.
Here’s the rundown:
She’s pro-physician assisted suicide and opposed proposals to ban it in 1997 and has said the DEA lacks the power to penalize physicians who give life-ending drug to patients.…
August 24, 2009
Who Will Care for All The Little "Snuppies" If Hwang Woo-suk Goes To Jail?
After a three-year trial and international disgrace, South Korean prosecutors have announced that their desired punishment for the Korean stem cell researchers fraud and general discrediting, not just of South Korean stem cell research, but for a time of stem cell research more broadly, would be a four-year prison term, says Reuters.…
April 6, 2009
No Clones for Montana
Just in case you were worried you were going to encounter some human clones out there in the wide open spaces of Montana have no fear.…
October 2, 2008
Genetic Karma
I don’t really know what John Kass is talking about in his Chicago Tribune column: some scary combination of personal experience with featherless chickens that he put into strange positions, genetically engineered animals (that he has nothing to with) and non-existent chimeras such as “superchickens” that he’s scared of, and biotechnology companies that he’s chastising for cloning a goat that produces “silk milk” containing a protein that has the properties of spider silk, namely that it is 25% more tensile than any other polymer in the world.…
August 7, 2008
You Read It Here First...Booger's Back!
Last week on our website, you saw the news story from the Baltimore Sun about the woman, Bernann McKinney, who cloned her dog, Booger, to the tune of $50,000.…
May 22, 2008
Woof!
You couldn’t make a story like this up. Lou Hawthorne, the guy who was previously involved with an operation called Genetic Savings and Clone (that’s him on the right with cloned dogs), teams up with Hwang Wook Suk — the central figure in one of modern science’s epic frauds — to auction off dog cloning services.…
March 28, 2008
The UK's debate over, well, almost everything
The UK has been involved in a rather intense political discussion about making changes to the country’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority bill.…
News (3)
May 16, 2013 2:07 pm
Cloning, Stem Cells Long Mired In Legislative Gridlock
The news that U.S. scientists have successfully cloned a human embryo seems almost certain to rekindle a political fight that has raged, on and off, since the announcement of the creation of Dolly the sheep in 1997.
May 15, 2013 2:07 pm
Ethicist: Cloning offers more cause for excitement than concern
It has finally happened – the technique used in 1996 to make Dolly, the world’s first cloned mammal, has finally been used in 2013 to make theworld’s first cloned human embryo.
April 5, 2013 5:14 pm
Should cloning be used for “de-extinction”?
Scientists are working on ways to revive species like the wooly mammoth, raising thorny ethical questions