"Glossary of terms"--P. 267-270. Also available online. Few avenues of scientific inquiry raise more thorny ethical questions than the cloning of human beings, a radical way to control our DNA. In ...

But cloning has multiple uses, ranging from the cool to the outright creepy. We can’t talk about cloning without mentioning Dolly, the celebrity sheep born in 1996 and the first mammal successfully ...

Human cloning is finally here, and it is going to spark a political conflagration. First, some background. The cloning era began when Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996. Dolly was cloned via ...

When Dolly the sheep – the first cloned mammal – was born 30 years ago, she became one of the most famous animals in science history. Her arrival sparked predictions of a sci-fi future filled with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man in a gray suit, purple tie and glasses Rep. Phillip Rigsby, R-Huntsville, speaks to colleagues on the floor of the Alabama ...

Cloning human organs has sparked intense interest and debate in recent years, drawing attention from scientific, ethical, and medical communities. The potential for cloning human organs presents ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mostly Republican lawmakers defeated a Democratic bid on Wednesday to outlaw cloning of human babies, concurring with the White House that the effort was flawed and would still ...

The United Nations has failed once again to reach a conclusion on a global ban on human cloning following two days of impassioned testimony from member nations. A UN spokesperson says a decision may ...

A new coalition of scientists, bioethicists, and religious leaders is calling for a complete ban on human cloning after a biotech firm in November announced it had cloned human embryos. In defending ...