So this makes cloning, human therapeutic cloning, a feasible reality for everybody.

NPR: Slate's Human Nature: S. Korean Stem Cell Advance

Basel, Switzerland-based Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) convened an ethics board that likewise decided human therapeutic cloning would be unethical.

FORBES: Magazine Article

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.

FORBES: Venter and the Vatican

That is likely to spook lawmakers who already voted in the House of Representatives to make all human cloning, including the therapeutic kind, illegal.

FORBES: Cloning's High Cost

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.

CNN: Cloning success hailed, feared

"Therapeutic cloning has tremendous, tremendous healing potential, but we have to open so many doors before human trials, " lead researcher Hwang Woo-suk of Seoul National University said in a telephone interview.

CNN: Cloning success hailed, feared