Human reproductive cloning is an assisted reproductive technology that would be carried out with the goal of creating a human being. It is currently the subject of much debate around the world, ...

A two-decade study into cloning has revealed a fundamental flaw in the technology, demonstrating that repeated duplication leads to an accumulation of fatal genetic mutations. Researchers in Japan ...

Scientists from across the world, many from the developing world, will call for a worldwide ban on human reproductive cloning at a UN meeting next week. The UN committee has been looking at the ...

Researchers in South Korea on Thursday announced they succeeded in extracting stem cells from a cloned human embryo. Following a background report on the science behind the research, Margaret Warner ...

From the moment physicians take the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm,” they commit themselves to ethical decision-making in their profession. As colleagues, one a physician and one a bioethicist, we ...

Last month, we said that human reproductive cloning should be banned and embryonic stem cell research encouraged. In the United States, stem cell research has become an election-year issue, although ...

We think of science as a clean and logical place where, with the right skills and instruments, you can see the world in a grain of sand. So what happens when you cross science with a circus full of ...

After years of diplomatic wrangling, in March the UN general assembly voted 84 to 34 (with 37 abstentions) in favour of a nonbinding resolution that urges member nations to adopt a blanket ban on all ...