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therapeutic cloning - The potential use of stem cells to grow, in vitro, tissue or organs for use in transplantation. Because these cells would be obtained from, and would therefore be genetically identical to the patient's own cells, problems of transplant rejection would be overcome. The technique would also remove the difficulty of identifying an organ donor. [FAO]

News archive for therapeutic cloning.

Pressure on MPs over therapeutic cloning bill  -  21 Aug 2007
ABC Regional Online,Anti-abortion campaigners say they will lobby state parliamentarians to oppose legislation which would allow therapeutic cloning. The Human Cloning Bill,

Half-Million Dollar Prize Offered for Therapeutic Cloning  -  Aug 7, 2007
Wired NewsA five-year ban on somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) -- the best known method of therapeutic cloning, due in large part to mistaken results by Hwang

Phyllis Zagano: Cloning our way to moral disaster 8/1  -  Aug 2, 2007
Kansas City Star,This is what they call “therapeutic cloning.� Congress is beginning to think cloning is a good idea. In June, a cloning bill lost, but it got an awful lot

You Ask The Questions: Sir Liam Donaldson, chief medical officer  -  Aug 19, 2007
Independent,On the horizon, though, is the very exciting prospect of therapeutic cloning, ie cloning at the cellular level. Through this, it may be possible to replace

$500K for stem cell breakthrough  -  Aug 6, 2007
NEWS.com.au,Yesterday Mr Iemma said that with the legislation being passed allowing therapeutic cloning, funding would be allocated from a special $11.5 million fund to

New glaucoma treatment studied  -  Aug 7, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...full article Therapeutic cloning -- Therapeutic cloning (also known as somatic cell nuclear transfer, cell nuclear replacement, research cloning,

The Right's "Science" Problem  -  Jul 28, 2007
Atlantic Online...the design debate offers liberals the opportunity to portray every scientific battle--today, stem-cell research, "therapeutic" cloning, and end-of-life

A thousand flowers blooming  -  Jul 25, 2007
Cosmos,So Eggan turned to another technique which promises to deliver stem cells from skin cells, that is: therapeutic cloning. To carry out this controversial

DISABILITY ACTIVISTS SINK ASSISTED SUICIDE IN CALIFORNIA  -  Aug 7, 2007
Australasian Bioethics Information,Voters had just amended the state constitution to allow therapeutic cloning and the well-endowed Stowers Institute for Medical Research was poised to launch

For Missouri, Stem Cell Measure Changes Little  -  Aug 9, 2007
New York Times,Within hours of the vote, opponents said they would fight on, focusing their attention narrowly on one element of the research, known as therapeutic cloning

NSW Govt boosts funding for stem-cell research  -  Aug 5, 2007
ABC Online,The government had already passed legislation allowing therapeutic cloning, but so far there have not been any applications for a licence to conduct the

Revisiting the South Korean Stem-Cell Claim  -  Aug 2, 2007
NPRThe news reopens the contentious debate over somatic-cell nuclear transfer, which is sometimes referred to as therapeutic cloning.

Cloned rabbit fine five months after birth  -  Jul 23, 2007
China Daily,China has announced at the United Nations that it opposes human cloning for reproduction but backs life extension such as therapeutic cloning of human

Mitt to fine-tune portfolio: Cashing out of stem-cell stocks after ...  -  Aug 15, 2007
Boston Herald,While he backs some embryonic stem cell research, Romney has said the practices of therapeutic cloning and embryo farming are repugnant.

Chinese announce cloning advance  -  Jul 24, 2007
Catholic World News...the “therapeutic cloning� in which human embryos are cloned and then harvested for their stem cells, so that the cloned humans do not survive until birth.

Expense stems research  -  Jul 25, 2007
Courier Mail,Legislation to free up the use of embryonic stem cells and therapeutic cloning has prompted debates in federal and state parliaments, but Queensland is yet

Conservative's tougher abortion stance  -  Jul 24, 2007
The Age,He was one of few cabinet ministers to use his conscience vote to oppose the recent private members' bill allowing therapeutic cloning.

Stem Cell Movement Faces Setbacks in Mo.  -  Jul 23, 2007
ABC NewsSome researchers even fear the techniques known as therapeutic cloning could still be outlawed in Missouri. Scientist Kevin Eggan had once considered

Mo. stem cell movement suffers setbacks  -  Jul 23, 2007
Howell Times and Transcript,Some researchers even fear the techniques known as therapeutic cloning could still be outlawed in Missouri. "I couldn‘t possibly come to a place where I

Dying for Lifesaving Drugs  -  Jul 25, 2007
Reason Online,..."Wouldn't the right you're asserting here also apply, then, to the right to therapeutic cloning, or to organ purchase?" Judge Brett Kavanaugh asked a few




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