The cloning era began when Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996. Dolly was cloned via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). This is accomplished by removing the nucleus from a skin or other cell ...

Can one be an advocate for embryonic stem cell research while opposing human cloning experimentation? That's the question facing about 30 U.S. senators who have not yet taken a position on human ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- For the first time, researchers have used the cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing science an important step closer to being able to do the ...

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IAN WILMUT, the co-creator of Dolly the Sheep, now intends to clone human life. This is quite a shift for Wilmut. When he and Keith Campbell entered the science pantheon with their announcement of the ...

Most of the scientists who gathered in Washington earlier this month to talk about human cloning agreed that cloning an entire human being–besides being morally questionable–was fraught with technical ...

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 ...

Lanza and the company's top executive Michael West said they had no interest in transplanting such early embryos into a woman's womb to give birth to a cloned human being, nor was it clear that their ...

BOSTON -- A research company reported Sunday it had cloned the first human embryo, a development it said was aimed at producing genetically matched replacement cells for patients with a wide range of ...

Ten years ago Thursday, the public learned that Scottish scientists had cloned a sheep. Dolly was the world's first cloned mammal. The news brought often hysterical speculation that human cloning was ...