Scientists say they’ll go ahead anyway. Lawmakers, seeking to rein in the scientific appetite for human experimentation, are attempting to ban human cloning. On July 31, the House approved a bill, 265 ...

(CNN) -- A human embryo, containing about a couple hundred cells, is smaller than the period at the end of a sentence. Scientists need strong microscopes to see these precursors to life, and to take ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — A new bill has been introduced in the Alabama Legislature that would classify human cloning as a felony. HB380, introduced by Rep. Phillip Rigsby, R-Huntsville, classifies ...

But we have also learned something else: Over one-third of the House of Representatives believes that corporations and researchers—like Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts, which has ...

Stanford University announced yesterday it would create an institute to develop medical therapies from human embryonic stem cells, the promising but controversy-laden cells found inside human embryos.

USING “embryonic stem cell research” (ESCR) as a Trojan Horse, the authors of New Jersey Assembly Bill 2840 are trying to sneak one of the most radical human cloning legalization schemes ever proposed ...

Researchers in Oregon claim to have solved the tricky problem of cloning human stem cells, but you're more likely to see a duplicate of a years-old ethics debate than you are a duplicate human. This ...

Scientists in Massachusetts said yesterday they had succeeded in creating the world's first cloned human embryos, a controversial advance intended to speed the development of new medical therapies but ...