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If burger lovers haven't been demanding a decision, one reason may be what Carol Tucker Foreman of the Consumer Federation of America calls the "yuck factor." A Gallup poll reported last year that 64% of Americans believe cloning animals is "morally wrong." An industry survey found that 62% of...
Hwang's methods are controversial, however--particularly in the U.S.--and the White House immediately criticized the experiment. The process is called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), but most people know it colloquially as therapeutic cloning. "I am very concerned about cloning," President Bush said in response to the news...
For Berg, Melton and their American colleagues, there is a touch of envy blended with the praise. Stem-cell research in Asia--not just in South Korea but in China, Japan and Singapore as well--is rapidly outdistancing the work being done in the U.S., reflecting, in large part, real...
Hwang also takes care to avoid off-putting words such as cloning or therapeutic cloning, preferring instead to call his process nuclear transfer. He doesn't want anyone to confuse his work with reproductive cloning, which he deems "unsafe and unethical." He thinks cloning fully grown humans may be biologically...
"I'm very excited about the possibility of being able to have large amounts of material--for instance, from juvenile diabetes patients--to do research on the complex genetic and nongenetic causes of the disease," says Anne McLaren, a developmental biologist at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Campaign Institute in Cambridge...