The Radical Party wants to turn the spotlight on euthanasia, therapeutic cloning and freedom of scientific research.
In exchange, Brownback backed off amendments that would have banned human cloning and prohibited creating animal-human hybrid embryos.
Both she and Ryder say that there is no international policy calling for cloning and preservation of highly endangered species.
Biogen scientists crafted decoys by cloning and attaching the binding site of LFA-3 onto the Y-shaped tail of a harmless antibody.
Frist's principles include banning human cloning and allowing taxpayer dollars for research only on embryos created for in-vitro fertilization and not from abortions.
The ethics of cloning and its consequences for personal identity, the cause of much debate today, has likewise inspired several recent sci-fi books and films.
The issue of cloning and embryonic stem cell research intersect when it comes to possible uses of cloned tissue as a source of stem cells.
I've been pondering the other shortlisted authors' styles - Ishiguro's prose was also very deliberate and spare, but with the effect of creating an Enid Blytonesque tale of cloning and organ harvesting.
But critics of human cloning and stem cell extraction methods essentially believe a human egg that begins to divide for any reason should be considered an embryo, and a potential person, that deserves protection under the law.
Talking to the scientists involved in research into cloning and you will find that most of them, with the exception of a few well publicised mavericks who frankly stand no chance of achieving their aims, are vehemently against cloning live humans.
Caves were thought to be essentially devoid of life until six years ago, when the renowned University of Colorado microbiologist Norman Pace, also an avid caver, discovered a way to identify extremophile microorganisms by cloning and sequencing unique sections of their DNA. Prior to Pace's work biologists had fruitlessly tried to cultivate these microorganisms with traditional lab techniques using nutrient-rich petri dishes.
"Somatic cell nuclear transfer does not relate to cloning, and the people who call it therapeutic cloning are creating a lot of confusion, because it is not cloning at all, and it certainly is not reproductive cloning, " Specter said.
The Vatican has over recent decades issued blanket condemnations of artificial methods of birth control, in-vitro fertilization, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, and human embryonic stem cell research.
Many scientists around the world are abiding by a self-imposed moratorium on cloning humans and several countries have laws that forbid cloning.
There is a federal moratorium on the use of federal funding for research on cloning humans and many scientists abroad are abiding by a self-imposed moratorium on cloning humans.
The included cloning software and step-by-step instructions make it easy to move the contents of an existing HDD to the SSDNow.
It allows the plants in question to reproduce asexually, thus cloning themselves and creating seeds which are genetically identical to their parent.
President Thomas Okarma, speaking on behalf of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, underscored the numerous benefits of human cloning research and expressed opposition to the all-out ban.
And you could fill a public library with Jeremy Rifkin's lamentations over cloning, biotechnology and Holstein cows that give too much milk.
"Pursuing perfect babies, ageless bodies and happy souls with the aid of cloning, genetic engineering and psychopharmacology, " he thinks, are among the most significant of those threats.
But opponents fear it would open the door to malpractice such as cloning of children and embryo trafficking.
But another approach to using embryonic stem cells--and cloning--has been in inventing drugs much like the ones we already have.
Therapeutic cloning was dead and buried years ago, but it just seems to keep on going, and so do people's hopes.
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There are guides for reading market indicators, repairing bad credit, saving for college and cloning billionaire Warren Buffett's value-investing strategy.
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The guidelines also specify areas of research that do not qualify for NIH funding, such as cloning of animals and humans.
New units spice things up with the inclusion of the Weather Control Device, Cloning Vats, and the mind controlling Yuri troops, among others.
At a news conference in Seoul, Woo Suk Hwang said he will step down as leader of the South Korean cloning team, and he apologized for his actions.
For a while, it appeared that South Korea was making a go of it when it came to stem cells and cloning, but then it turned out that one of its leading researchers, Hwang Woo Suk, had faked results.
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Orion Genomics hopes to start pulling in revenues next year from its proprietary method of sequencing, mapping and cloning agricultural genes--technology that can be used to improve crop yield, develop pest resistance or help plants survive drought, flooding and cold.
The last time I checked with biologists, philosophers and even politicians on both sides of the debates about abortion, stem cell research and cloning, they were pretty certain human individuals were defined by two sets of chromosomes (half from the male, half from the female) which were arranged in the one-celled zygote after fertilization.
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