33. Cloning  

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07.12.2001 Washington Post Firm Aims to Clone Embryos for Stem Cells Scientists in Mass. have started experiments aimed at creating cloned human embryos from which embryonic stem cells can be derived (a process to create custom stem cells). This is the first open acknowledgment of the attempt to create cloned human entities in the US. 31. Stem Cells
07.06.2001 Washington Post Clone Study Casts Doubt on Stem Cells Studies have shown that mice cloned from embryonic stem cells may look identical but actually harbour unique genetic abnormalities. This could explain why many clones do not survive to birth. These findings suggest that the cloning process itself may scramble molecular switches. 31. Stem Cells
06.21.2001 Washington Post Bush Backs Broad Ban On Human Cloning The Bush administration announced yesterday that it favours the most far-reaching of several competing bills to make human cloning a federal crime. This would outlaw not only the creation of cloned children but also the creation of cloned embryos for research.  
05.2001 Nature Medicine US still lacks human cloning legislation... In the wake of two announcements by scientists preparing to conduct research on human cloning, the need for legislation in the US is reviewed.
05.23.2001 Washington Post Legal Barriers to Human Cloning May Not Hold Up Many legal scholars say they find little evidence to support the FDA’s assertion of authority over cloning. The FDA would likely fail in court if they attempted to stop doctors from doing so.  The alternative to FDA regulation is a congressional ban (bills pending) which if passed could be struck down as unconstitutional.
05.13.2001 BioNews  Canadian Legislation Proposed Minister of Health presented draft legislation which would ban human cloning and other 'unacceptable practices' as well as regulate assisted reproduction and reproduction research.
05.11.2001 Science Cloning Bills Proliferate in U.S. Congress A discussion of how scientific groups interested in cloning are having an impact in the US Congress.
05.08.2001 New York Times Creating a Modern Ark of Genetic Samples The tissue specimens – from whole insects to leeches to small pieces of whales – will be a treasure for researchers using genetic techniques to study wildlife and perhaps one day will become the source material for creating clones of endangered or extinct animals.  The stored tissues will also help to answer questions that no one could have though of when the tissues were first frozen.
05.08.2001 New York Times As Horse Breeder, Cloning's a Long Shot Dr. Ernest Bailey, a geneticist at the University of Kentucky believes that a cloned horse will not be as successful as the horse cloned without all of the benefits of that real horse.   Included in the “all” is the best training, nutrition and veterinary care, as well as embryonic development, something that cloning simply could not reproduce.
05.03.2001 Nature Bills threaten total US ban on human cloning Two US bills propose a total ban on any product of human cloning, whether created or imported, for any purpose, including research and reproduction.  A more moderate bill supporting research would be expected to receive more backing.
04.27.2001 Washington Post New Potential for Stem Cells Suggested General discussion about the pro's and con's of embryonic stem cell (ESC) research and the policy issues surrounding their use.  Several bills proposed by Congress would criminalize not only human cloning but the cloning of  human embryos which would severely limit research. 31. Stem Cells
04.11.2001 BBC News Pig Cloning Advance PPL Therapeutics company that created Dolly the sheep has now produced a litter of five transgenic cloned pigs. They are not the first cloned pigs - a previous litter was born last year . But they are the first pig clones to have a foreign gene added to the cells from which they were developed.
03.29.2001 BBC News US politicans criticise human cloning efforts Lawmakers in the United States say they are considering banning human cloning after scientists warned the technology could produce abnormal babies. Scientists say cloning techniques are still too underdeveloped to   attempt on humans; however, some doctors and a religious sect, Cloneaid, said that they will go ahead with their plans to clone despite the concerns.
03.28.2001 Washington Post Bush OKs Outlawing Human Cloning Scientists called human cloning ethically risky and likely to produce deformed babies, even as researchers who plan to move forward defended their plans Wednesday before a congressional panel. The White House said President Bush would sign a federal law outlawing such research.
03.25.2001 Washington Post Cloned Cows Are Fetching Big Bucks Cloned cows are coming to US farms. The business of cloning is briefly discussed.
03.09.2001 BBC News Cloning humans: Can it really be done? The BBC's science editor, Dr David Whitehouse, answers some questions about cloning and whether the technology can be made to work in humans.
03.09.2001 BBC News Human cloning: The 'terrible odds' Ethicist Dr Donald Bruce explains why many people oppose the idea of using cloning technology to help childless couples have a baby.  He argues that it is criminally  irresponsible to attempt a technique on humans which is known frequently to cause deformities, large fetuses and premature deaths in sheep and cattle. There are also unknown and undesirable psychological harms that the precautionary principle suggests we should not run. 4. Ethical and Social Concerns Arising out of Biotechnology
03.09.2001 BBC News Doctors defiant on cloning Doctors, Severino Antinori and Panayiotis Zavos, said they intended to push ahead with their plans to clone human beings, despite the objections and doubts raised by religious and scientific groups. 4. Ethical and Social Concerns Arising out of Biotechnology
03.07.2001 Washington Post Human Cloning Bid Stirs Experts' Anger The article discusses the failures experienced by cloning and the dangers that presents for human cloning.
02.15.2001 Nature The maps: Clone by clone by clone A very scientific, detailed look and step-by-step explanation of the method used by the public consortium, Human Genome Project, in sequencing the human genome. 32. Genome Project and Genomics
02.08.2001 Nature Japanese premier underlines opposition to human cloning Japan's prime minister, Yoshiro Mori, has warned Japanese researchers to steer clear of a proposed international project to clone humans.
01.30.2001 BBC News Cloned human planned 'by 2003' A private consortium of scientists plans to clone a human being within the next two years. The group says it will use the technique only for helping infertile couples with no other opportunity to become parents. 4. Ethical and Social Concerns Arising out of Biotechnology
01.12.2001 BBC News Endangered animal clone dies Researchers from Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) have announced the birth- and death - of the first endangered animal clone. The baby bull gaur died within 48 hours of a common dysentery, unlikely to be related to the cloning procedure itself.
12.21.2000 Nature Cloning's not a new idea: the Greeks had a word for it centuries ago An interesting, if not entirely useful, look at cloning from its roots in antiquity and Aristotle.  While the 21st century conception of cloning differs from that of the ancients, the principle may be seen as to have been cultivated in the “minds of the ancients”.
12.2000 Nature Biotech Cloned pig litter update Letter from the President of Infigen describing briefly the circumstances that led to the loss of the second litter of clone piglets reported in the October issue ( Nature  Biotech 18, 1055, 2000) one-week after their birth.
11.2000 Nature Biotech Three little pigs worth the huff and puff? An examination of the recent cloning achievements of the pigs. The efficiency of these processes are analysed as well as the potential applications of these developments with respect to xenotransplantation and producing pharmaceutical proteins. 30. Xenotransplantation
11.2000 Nature Biotech Cloning for conservation In [Cloning 2, 79-90, 2000], a collaboration of academic and industrial researchers  has taken the first steps in cloning an endangered wild Asian ox by electrofusing fibroblasts from the animal's skin with enucleated bovine oocytes. The creation of a functional chimeric fetus via nuclear transfer between two different species has been demonstrated for the first time, with significant implications for wildlife conservation.
10.13.2000 UK Telegraph Cloning may be used to reverse extinction Genetic scientists in the United States claimed they could reverse the extinction of animals and announced plans to recreate a lost species of wild goat. The first step will be in about six weeks, when an ordinary cow on a farm in Iowa will give birth to a gaur, an almost-extinct breed of wild cow. The scientists said this would herald an attempt to recreate, early in 2001, an extinct species, the bucardo, a mountain goat from Spain.
08.16.2000 New York Times British Scientists Seek Approval to Clone Human Embryos A panel of experts urged the British government to allow the cloning of human embryos to study the manufacture of cells and tissues for transplant. The government accepted the panel's recommendation, led by Britain's chief medical officer, and said it would initiate legislation to implement it as soon as possible.
06.16.2000 Globe and Mail Canadians favour limited use of clones for emergencies only, survey finds Canadians are dead set against the cloning of entire human beings, but most people don't have much of a problem with cloning human parts for medical emergencies, a new survey shows. The poll, carried out by consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers as part of a larger survey on health the company does every year, questioned 2,580 people across Canada by phone at the end of March. It is considered accurate within 1.9 percentage points 19 times out of 20.