British Scientists Oppose Clone Ban
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&quot;It is clear that if the UN bans all forms of human cloning, the UK, and other countries which currently permit carefully regulated therapeutic cloning, will not sign up to it.
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British scientists said on Wednesday they had received permission to clone human embryos for medical research, in what they believe to be the first such license to be granted in Europe.
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Some high-profile scientists have jumped into the fight over the University of Wisconsin-Madison's stem cell patents, supporting the effort to have them revoked.
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Lawmakers begin debating legislation this week that would lift a ban on cloning human embryos for stem cell research &#151; a bill that, if passed, could make Australia a world leader in research into diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer's.
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Britain&#39;s leading academic institution is backing an international campaign to stop the US securing an international ban on all forms of human cloning.
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An influential World Health Organization committee has upset a some scientists with its recommendation that researchers be permitted to conduct genetic-engineering experiments with the smallpox virus.
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Science & environment: Scientists will this week launch a recruitment campaign aimed at five million members of the British public. Volunteers will be asked to give blood and DNA samples to the UK Biobank, a controversial new national gene database.
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Researchers who once dismissed another team's cloning method used the disputed process to create monkey embryos. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Australia will allow embryonic stem  cells to be cloned for research after lawmakers on Wednesday  defied conservative Prime Minister John Howard in an emotive  parliamentary debate.
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Britain's national academy of science  urged the United Nations on Monday to ignore a call by  President Bush to ban all forms of human cloning.
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Britain's leading scientific institution said Monday it is urging countries to back a campaign to stop a possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty banning human cloning. The London-based Royal Society is stepping up its drive to push the United Nations to ban the cloning of babies, but to make no ruling on using the technology for medical research, or therapeutic cloning, at its 59th General Session in October. The 191-nation U.N. General Assembly is divided over whether to allow therapeutic cloning to continue or to adopt a broad cloning ban championed by the Bush administration and Costa Rica with strong backing from the U.S. anti-abortion movement and many predominantly Roman Catholic nations.
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A MAVERICK cloning scientist came under severe criticism yesterday as he denied exploiting bereaved couples by using DNA from their dead children in his experiments.
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The UK's MRSA problem may be due to the emergence of highly contagious clones of the superbug, says a scientist.
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Australia's Parliament on Thursday debated a bill that would lift the country's ban on cloning human embryos for stem cell research.
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By putting off a vote on banning all human cloning, nations have let embryo research for therapeutic reasons gain momentum. By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Harvard University scientists have asked the university's ethical review board for permission to produce cloned human embryos for disease research, potentially becoming the first researchers in the nation to wade into a divisive area of study that has become a presidential campaign issue.
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The first request by British scientists to clone human embryos has been granted by experts.