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Dolly’s creator seeks human cloning license
MSNBC.com, September 28, 2004
The professor who created Dolly the Sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, has applied for a license to use cloning to develop human embryos to study Lou Gehrig's disease.
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President Bush Tells United Nations to Protect Life - Ban Cloning
LifeSite.com, September 21, 2004
President Bush addressed the United Nations asking them to consider the Costa Rica resolution calling for a comprehensive ban on human cloning.
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Go-Ahead for Therapeutic Cloning
Claire Keeton, Sunday Times (Johannesburg), August 15, 2004
Discusses South Africa’s research into therapeutic cloning and the status of South African regulation, legislation, and public opinion of cloning.
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Germans Call for European Ban on Embryo Cloning
Deutsche Welle, DW-World.de, August 13, 2004
There is a majority consensus of German top doctors and political parties that cloning should remain banned, and further they are calling for an international ban. However, the staff writer points out that their does exist one mainstream German political party, the Free Democrat Party, who sees cloning as the next logical step.
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UK Grants Cloning License: Group Given Permission to Undertake Cell Nuclear Transfer
Stephen Pincock, The Scientist, August 12, 2004
Britain's Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) said on Wednesday (August 11) that it had granted the country's first license (for 1 year with an option to renew afterwards) to create human embryonic stem cells using cell nuclear replacement. The article discusses the details of the license and subsequent reactions.
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Cloning Experiment Shows Cancer Reversible
Maggie Fox, Yahoo News, July 31, 2004
A study producing non-cancerous mice cloned from a malignant cancer cell showed that non-genetic factors in cancer cells can - in principle - be reversed.
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Ron Reagan
Address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention (July 27, 2004)
In his speech at the Democratic National Convention aimed at rallying support for embryonic stem cell research, Ron Reagan briefly laid out the science of human cloning (also known as somatic cell nuclear transfer), as a means to acquire embryo stem cells.
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French Parliament Bans Human Cloning
Channel NewsAsia International online, July 9, 2004
The French Parliament recently expanded its legislation on cloning by passing a law that prohibits reproductive cloning as a “crime against the human species” and prevents therapeutic cloning as well.
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Scientists Renew Cloning Warnings
Caroline Ryan, BBC News Online, June 30, 2004
At the European Fertility Conference in Berlin, scientists from Cornell University presented evidence from research on cloned mouse embryos to add to the general consensus that reproductive cloning is too dangerous to practice on humans.
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UK Scientists Await Human Cloning Go-Ahead
John von Radowitz, Scotsman.com, June 14, 2004
A team of British scientists could soon be given the go-ahead to proceed with human cloning for medical research.
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Louisiana Activists Attempt to Derail Total Human Cloning Ban
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com, June 12, 2004
Story of battle over cloning legislation in Louisiana; includes information on legislation in other states as well.
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Clone the Taxpayers
Wesley J. Smith, Forbes, March 15, 2004
Taxpayers may soon be paying for cloning research that the private sector will not fund. (This article only available online through purchase.)
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Dr. Clone: Creating Life or Trying to Save It?
Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, February 29, 2004, at A01
In defense of cloning; the South Korean scientist defends his controversial research.
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Cloned Embryos Could Help Explain Basis for Disease
Rick Weiss, Washington Post, February 23, 2004, at A08
Cloning unhealthy cells: scientists attempt to follow the progress of disease in cloned cells implanted in mice
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Clone Report Sparks Fresh Debate
CNN.com, February 13, 2004
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