The academy is supposed to present a report on cloning to Congress in the next month.
An ethical debate on cloning has been brewing ever since Dolly the sheep was produced in 1997.
Many scientists around the world are abiding by a self-imposed moratorium on cloning humans and several countries have laws that forbid cloning.
The House on Tuesday will debate two measures on cloning, which some observers see as a dress rehearsal for the coming debate over embryonic stem cell research.
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.
He had been hired to work on a class of immune-system proteins called interleukins, but he had a better idea: He proposed, instead, that the two of them work on cloning the receptors for TNF.
LONDON, England -- A ban on human cloning has been pledged by the British government to allay public fears.
In this session, the U.N. will consider a resolution sponsored by Costa Rica calling for a comprehensive ban on human cloning.
It also raised concerns: The House of Representatives held a second hearing this month to try to determine whether there should be a federal ban on human cloning.
In March the United Nations abandoned its bid to impose a blanket ban on human cloning because of opposition from countries that support embryonic research for therapeutic purposes.
"Scientists say they're getting closer and closer to being able to do 'Jurassic Park'-style cloning on extinct species -- things once thought to be extinct could now be brought back from the dead, " Leno said.
There is no law against private stem cell research in the US, but Mr Bush has called for an international United Nations ban on all human cloning, prompting ire from a number of countries which allow the process under regulated conditions for research purposes.
The Radical Party wants to turn the spotlight on euthanasia, therapeutic cloning and freedom of scientific research.
In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush advocated outlawing all use of cloning technology on human cells.
In the years that followed, the government pumped billions of dollars into labs and universities and enterprises, on projects ranging from cloning to underwater robots.
The public debate focused on the morality of cloning whole animals, and so it conjured up sci-fi images of a society in which everyone has identical faces, and cloned bodies are grown in vats.
Scientists will almost certainly use fewer eggs if therapeutic cloning is used on people.
Much of the debates enshrouding breeding and GMOs (genetically modified organisms) falter on the abyss of actual cloning.
The fact is that the cloning paper published on Wednesday is zombie science.
CNN: Human stem cell cloning: 'Holy Grail' or techno-fantasy?
The Republican lawmakers, most of whom are against abortion, said bans should remain on creating human life through cloning or other means.
But with a tenth of all bird species and a fifth of mammals on the verge of extinction, cloning is better than nothing.
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.
McCARTHY: Santos, an agronomist and native of Portugal, says specialists from Lisbon are here with him cloning grapes from Shiraz to Chardonnay to cultivate on his land, an experiment he hopes will develop the varieties most apt to thrive in this dry climate.
They come only from embryos, raising more moral dilemmas - and putting the brakes on government funding in the U.S. The advent of cloning only complicates the issue.
Not surprisingly, those who know reproductive cloning best are urging others to refrain from trying it on people until the bugs have been worked out on hundreds more animals.
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.
FORBES: Biologist Asserts Your Life Began...Before Fertilization.
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.
Therapeutic cloning was dead and buried years ago, but it just seems to keep on going, and so do people's hopes.
CNN: Human stem cell cloning: 'Holy Grail' or techno-fantasy?
On November 22nd, the government published new legislation permitting therapeutic, but explicitly outlawing reproductive, cloning.
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