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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — President Barack Obama has established a new presidential bioethics council that may feature advisors who could push his decision to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research even further. They could advise Obama that his administration should push human cloning.
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — Advanced Cell Technology is at it again. The human cloning company that thrives on overstated press releases that capture the media’s attention and temporarily drive up its stock prices is announcing yet another attempt at launching a trial with patients receiving injections of embryonic stem cells.
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Pierre, SD (LifeNews.com) — A new grassroots organization has sprung up that would urge voters to reject a statewide ballot measure next year that would force taxpayers to pay for embryonic stem cell research and human cloning. That is the research that has yet to provide any cures for patients and has had problems in animal studies.
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A disgraced cloning expert who falsely claimed major breakthroughs in stem cell research was convicted Monday for embezzlement and other charges connected to the scandal, but he will not serve time in prison.
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Catholic moral theologians have raised concerns after news broke that scientists here have become the first to “semi-clone” an animal by fertilizing an egg with an embryonic stem cell that mimics sperm. (more…)
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Lansing, MI (LifeNews.com) — Michigan is the latest state where pro-life advocates are working on a personhood amendment to the state constitution that would regard unborn children from conception as persons under the law. The measure has the potential of banning abortions and other practices like human cloning that kill unborn children.
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — President Barack Obama issued an executive order this year to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research that destroys human life. Now that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued the guidelines to implement that decision, a pro-cloning member of Congress wants to open the door further.
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the world’s oldest living organism, a shrub that grows in Tasmania and reproduces only by cloning. Tasmanian scientists have cloned Lomatia tasmanica as part of a battle to save it from a deadly fungus. From the RTBG’s press release (which seems to load slowly in the US):
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There is no moral concern regarding cloning human beings since human embryos, which develop into a baby, are “only a handful of cells,” argued President Obama’s newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.
“If scientists will be using and cloning embryos only at a very early stage when they are just a handful of cells (say, before they are four days old), there is no good reason for a ban (on cloning),” wrote Sunstein, who was confirmed by the Senate last week as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
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(AP) – ISFAHAN, Iran – Iranian scientists have become the first in the Middle East to clone a cow as part of the country’s stem cell research, the leader of the project said Saturday. The male cow, named Bonyana, was born Saturday in the city of Isfahan in central Iran, said Dr. Mohammed Hossein Nasr e Isfahani, head of the Royan Research Institute. Besides its nuclear activity and nascent space program, Iran has sought to highlight advances in other technologies such as cloning and medicine. The government set a goal to…
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NEW YORK—Researchers need more eggs for human cloning and embryonic stem cell research, and more women are desperate for money. Although some ethicists argue that paying for eggs exploits women by creating an “undue inducement” to undergo invasive procedures, the Empire State Stem Cell Board decided last week that researchers can use taxpayer funds to pay women for eggs.
Fertility clinics already generously compensate egg donors, but researchers have suffered a competitive disadvantage collecting the eggs required for embryonic stem cell research, since states have forbidden them to compensate women. At the June 11 Empire State Stem Cell Board (ESSCB) meeting, New York State Health Commissioner Richard Daines said, “Donations for research purposes have been essentially nil.”
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St. Paul, MN (LifeNews.com) — A Minnesota pro-life group is calling on officials at the University of Minnesota to stop pursuing human cloning experiments. Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life says the college is violating state law by conducting research involving the destruction of human embryos, days-old unborn children.
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The Oklahoma legislature has unanimously approved a bill to prohibit all forms of human cloning.
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A controversial doctor has claimed to have cloned human embryos and transferred them to four women prepared to give birth to the first cloned babies.
Fertility specialist Panayiotis Zavos sensationally broke the sacred taboo of human individuality by cloning 14 embryos and placing 11 of them into the wombs of four women, he told The Independent.
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New stem cell research guidelines released Friday by the National Institutes of Health would ease restrictions on federally funded human embryonic stem cell research, allowing for cells culled from fertility clinic embryos that otherwise would be discarded.
The draft guidelines do not allow for the use of stem cells derived from embryos created just for science – and perhaps even those created using cloning techniques – that could make them genetically customized for a specific patient.
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Helena, MT (LifeNews.com) — When is a ban on human cloning not really a ban on human cloning? When the bill only bans one of the two types of human cloning that scientists could undertake and allows the other version to legally flourish unchecked by the state legislature or government.
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Proponents of embryonic stem cell research may soon try to push through the U.S. House a bill to approve federal funds for experiments on human embryos — including cloned ones — while falsely claiming that human cloning is being banned.
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A controversial Italian doctor known for his work allowing post-menopausal women to have children has claimed in an interview to have cloned three babies who are now living in eastern Europe.
“I helped give birth to three children with the human cloning technique,” Severino Antinori, a prominent gynaecologist, told Oggi weekly in an interview to appear Wednesday.
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Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) — For pro-life advocates, there is little ethical reason to support hybrid cloning that involves the infusion of animal and human DNA together to create a two-species embryo to be killed for research purposes. Now, a new study finds there is little efficacy of such research, which sounds more like a bad sci-fi movie.
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The Pyrenean ibex, a form of wild mountain goat, was officially declared extinct in 2000 when the last-known animal of its kind was found dead in northern Spain.
Shortly before its death, scientists preserved skin samples of the goat, a subspecies of the Spanish ibex that live in mountain ranges across the country, in liquid nitrogen.
Using DNA taken from these skin samples, the scientists were able to replace the genetic material in eggs from domestic goats, to clone a female Pyrenean ibex, or bucardo as they are known. It is the first time an extinct animal has been cloned.
Sadly, the newborn ibex kid died shortly after birth due to physical defects in its lungs. Other cloned animals, including sheep, have been born with similar lung defects.