Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo collage of rhesus monkeys on top of microscope photography of cells. Researchers in China have successfully cloned the first ...

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 ...

Only a handful of laboratories around the world are pursuing human-cloning experiments. Researchers at Harvard are now trying to get approval from university and hospital review boards to start their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back when it was no more than a cheesy science-fiction plot device, human cloning seemed like something that would eventually be revealed to a horrified world full-blown and fully grown–a monstrous ...

Last week, the Brownback-Weldon bill to prohibit human cloning was introduced on Capitol Hill. And the arguments against it are . . . well, as it turns out, there really aren't many arguments against ...

Researchers in China have successfully cloned the first rhesus monkey, a species widely used in medical research because of its physiological similarity to humans. The monkey, named Retro, is now more ...