The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted 19-12 last week - along party lines - to approve a bill banning all forms of human cloning, including for medical research. The bill is similar to another passed last year by the House, but which failed to pass through the Senate. Having...
David Stewart, MP for Inverness, Scotland, has introduced a 10-minute rule bill to the UK Parliament aimed at changing the law to protect the rights of both partners involved in IVF treatments. He introduced the bill in support of one of his constituents, Margaret Grant, who called for a...
Icelanders may not have the unique genetic heritage that gene-hunting firm deCODE Genetics had previously claimed, a new study suggests. The Icelandic biotech company is hunting for genes involved in common illnesses, using medical records and DNA samples from its country's people. It claims that Icelanders are more genetically similar...
Dolly the cloned sheep is no more. The Roslin Institute announced last week that she had been put down after a veterinary examination showed that she had a progressive lung disease. Her final resting place will be in Edinburgh - her body is to be preserved for the National Museum of...
Gene therapy trials for a rare inherited immune disease might be allowed to proceed, but only for patients with no other treatment options, a US advisory panel concluded at an emergency meeting last week. The Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) also said that resuming trials for other diseases 'may be...
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Did cloning kill Dolly?
by Juliet Tizzard
On 23 February 1997, an article appeared in the Observer newspaper heralding the arrival of the world's first mammal cloned from an adult cell, Dolly the sheep. Almost six years later to the day comes news that Dolly has died. Although the amount of press coverage that Dolly's death has...