The maverick Italian fertility specialist, Severino Antinori, has announced that he intends to deliver IVF millennium babies by caesarian section. Dr Antinori said last week that he had helped 14 women conceive by in vitro fertilisation techniques and said that he hoped to make the first incision within two seconds...
Dolly the cloned sheep has given birth to three lambs at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh. Dolly's first pregnancy resulted in just one lamb born in April last year. All the lambs were conceived naturally and all have the same father, a Welsh mountain ram called David. Dr Harry Griffin...
At a conference in London last week, Dr Anne McLaren of the Wellcome CRC Institute in Cambridge (UK) said that the first application of cloning techniques in cell therapy was likely to be for bone marrow grafts for children suffering from leukaemia. She predicted that this might be possible in...
Research using cloned human embryos should be allowed for the development of tissue and cell therapies, the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) declared in a statement released last week. The AAS statement says that because of recent breakthroughs in the isolation of embryonic stem cells and the development of cloning...
Germany's tight laws on human embryo research should remain in place for the time being, according to a policy statement issued two weeks ago by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), an agency that funds basic research in Germany. Since breakthroughs in areas such as human embryonic stem cell research which could...
An article in Newsweek discusses the ethical issues surrounding the use of cloning technology to produce embryonic stem cells capable of producing cells and tissues for transplant purposes. The writer makes a distinction between reproductive cloning and the use of cloning technology for therapeutic purposes. The Independent on Sunday deals...
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