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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,... (read the rest)
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. According to media outlets there, last Wednesday the governor signed into law legislation that bans the creation of human clones, but does not prohibit... (read the rest)
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... (read the rest)
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. One doesn't even know where to begin to comment on the ethics here: resource allocation, health risks to the animals, and... (read the rest)
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 --... (read the rest)
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. Stem cells, chimeras, cloning and more all fall under this law. Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced this week that there would be a "free" vote on the... (read the rest)
Cloning is cheaper when you buy in bulk
Odd info nugget from an AP story about breeders of fighting bulls turning to cloning: cattle cloning at ViaGen in Austin gets cheaper the more clones you buy. It's $17,500 for the first calf, $15,000 for the second, $12,500 for the third and $10,000 a calf when you buy four... (read the rest)
"Natural" can mean many things
Via Jim Fossett comes this op-ed by Neil Shubin in NYT about the variety of ways species have found to reproduce -- and how that should make us cautious when talking about what's "natural" in debates about cloning and other technologies. Here's a snip: Cloning is one of many mechanisms... (read the rest)
Cloned human embryos coverage roundup
Here's a bit of the reaction to the report in the journal Stem Cells (pdf) that Stemagen, a California company, has successfully created cloned human embryos by fusing an adult skin cell with an egg (a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer or SCNT). + Stemagen didn't produce stem cells... (read the rest)
Flashback: where the presidential candidates stand on cloning
Back in November when news of cloned monkey embryos surfaced, we surveyed the leading presidential candidates' stands on cloning human embryos to produce stem cells for potential therapies. The issue was roughly split between Republicans and Democrats -- the Republicans generally against, the Democrats generally supportive. But the candidates have... (read the rest)
Art Caplan on cloned human embryos
Over at MSNBC, Art puts the news that a company has cloned human embryos into context: Stemagen, a private company in La Jolla, Calif., has published a paper in which its scientists claim they have successfully created cloned human embryos. If you think you have heard this announcement before, you... (read the rest)
Art Caplan on food from cloned animals
In his latest column for MSNBC.com, Art calls for transparency in the marketing of food from cloned animals: The Food and Drug Administration has spoken: meat, milk, cheese and other products from cloned animals are safe to eat. And the federal agency won't require any special labels identifying these products.... (read the rest)
Are we in the middle of a shift in stem cell research?
Just a week after the news came out that embryonic stem cells had been derived from a cloned primate embryo, the stem cell research scene could be experiencing another significant shift. The UK's Daily Telegraph reported late last week that Ian Wilmut, the scientist who cloned Dolly the sheep, is... (read the rest)
Where the leading presidential candidates stand on cloning
Now that cloned monkey embryos have been created, the issue of creating cloned human embryos for the purposes of research and potential therapies moves back to the forefront. As a representative of the National Catholic Bioethics Center recently told the New York Times, "I certainly think that this represents a... (read the rest)
Monkey cloning follow up
Semos, the monkey whose skin cells were used to create the cloned embryos A lot of details have shaken out since The Independent dropped the news that a team in Oregon had successfully created cloned monkey embryos: + The research was scheduled to be published in Nature later this month.... (read the rest)
Art Caplan at MSNBC: Monkey cloning a reason to pause, not panic
Art writes that the news out of Oregon should prompt thought about laws and policies that will keep the door open for therapeutic cloning: For quite some time many important and influential people have been freaking out over the prospect of cloning a human being. When Dolly the cloned sheep's... (read the rest)
Return of the clones
The Independent (UK) is reporting that a research team at the Oregon National Primate Research Center has successfully created multiple cloned embryos of a rhesus macaque. If this is true -- the paper describing this research hasn't been published yet -- it would mark the first time someone has created... (read the rest)
Ten Years Since Dolly...
Art Caplan writes in MSNBC:Ten years ago today, the birth of the first cloned mammal - a sweet-faced sheep named Dolly - was announced to the world. Her creators, a team of veterinary scientists at Scotland's Roslin Institute, approached their landmark scientific achievement with a sense of humor: They named... (read the rest)
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