July 11, 2005 - Spain plans to introduce legislation allowing therapeutic
cloning, which will likely result in a new clash between the socialist government and the Roman Catholic church.
"The insightful horse owner who purchases the only horse
cloning slot available for the entire world this season will have a chance to make a great deal more money than could be made by regularly breeding because they will multiply the negotiated royalties by the number of clones produced.
In September 2004 President Bush strongly endorsed a United Nations resolution, proposed by Costa Rica, for a global treaty that would completely ban both reproductive cloning/that is,
cloning to produce a baby) and therapeutic
cloning.
Yet while Little Nicky, who was delivered two weeks ago, frolics in his new home, the kitten's creation and sale has re-ignited fierce ethical and scientific debate over
cloning technology.
Leon Kass, the chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics and a
cloning foe, would like to keep that a secret.
Hwang's research took the first steps in therapeutic
cloning, a process in which stem cells (cells that can become any one of the 200 different cell types present in the human body) are taken from a cloned embryo.
That is a realm not strange to Raelians, who believe visitors from outer space created the human race by
cloning themselves.
This genetic diversity is an invaluable resource base for breeding and
cloning applications and represents greater diversity than many other commercial programs.
In order to investigate social representations in the media, Globe and Mail articles about
cloning were coded and analysed from 1997, when Dolly was cloned, through to 2001.
coalition that blocked a proposal to ban human
cloning. A cursory read of the headlines might have suggested that the medical-industrial complex had won.
Cloning first hit the front page with the birth of Dolly in 1997, a lamb created using the nucleus of a cell from her mother's body.
Results from the 2 approaches are expected to be in agreement and may provide direction for an expression
cloning approach.
According to Boisselier,
cloning requests have not stopped pouring in since the moment Eve was born in December 2002.
Company vice president Thomas Kaenzig said an unidentified same-sex couple from Las Vegas is among the second group of
cloning customers, whose babies "should be born before the end of 2003."
The announcement came Friday from Brigitte Boisselier, chief executive of Clonaid, a Bahamas-based company set up by the Raelians for the purpose of
cloning a human being.
