Controversial US fertility doctor Panos Zavos has made more unsubstantiated claims of limited success in human cloning experiments. According to a report in the UK's Mail on Sunday, Zavos says he has created embryo clones of an 11 year-old girl and a 33 year-old man, who both died in road...
A new survey of US fertility clinics reveals wide variation in the fate of surplus embryos created during IVF treatment. The research shows that such embryos may be frozen indefinitely, given a religious funeral, donated to research or thrown away. Bioethicist Arthur Caplan, who co-authored the study, said he was...
The UK's Royal Society and 67 other science academies around the world are urging the United Nations (UN) to ban human reproductive cloning, whilst leaving individual countries to regulate therapeutic cloning. However, the US is pushing for a global ban on all uses of the technology, which could be introduced...
GPs in England are invited to apply for funding to become experts in genetics, the government announced recently. Money is available for ten GPs to take part in a training scheme that aims to make sure genetic knowledge and treatment are widely available to NHS patients. Applications for the funds...
A team of US scientists has used genetic techniques to breed mice that can run twice as far as normal mice. The animals, dubbed 'marathon' mice, have unusual stamina, and have raised more concerns over the potential use of 'gene doping' to enhance human athletic performances. The researchers, based at...
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Therapeutic cloning cannot be regulated internationally
by Dr Jess Buxton
This weeks BioNews reports on renewed attempts by supporters of therapeutic cloning to stop the research being banned worldwide. The United Nations (UN) will again be considering two competing resolutions on cloning when it meets this October: one banning all uses of the technology, and one which would ban human...