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Cultural and religious fault lines have opened up around issues like stem - cell research, therapeutic cloning, assisted reproduction and euthanasia, but gay rights is perhaps the most divisive. In Spain, whose kings and queens were once the most fervent defenders of the Christian faith, the Socialist government has launched a...
Harvard, however, has begun to defend stem cell research against the frustrating restrictions Bush has placed on it. Researchers at the institute have already created new, viable stem cell lines using private money. But cloning human embryos for the purpose of stem cell research is even more controversial than just...
Yet what Harvard’s stem cell scientists are asking to do is not as ethically daunting as popular imagination might make it. Harvard has already banned reproductive cloning—the sort of thing that results in Dolly. That is not what the Stem Cell Institute has in...
In theory, it would be possible to clone a person by implanting that person’s cloned embryo in a woman’s uterus. Numerous animal studies indicate, however, that it is unlikely to work in the sense of producing normal individuals. Aside from the scientific limitations, responsible...
Several countries, including the United Kingdom and Singapore, endorse nuclear transfer research, but strictly prohibit any attempts at reproductive cloning. This means that a ban on nuclear transfer in the United States may lead to a brain drain outside of U.S. academic and corporate laboratories. Nor is it inconceivable that...