• Otherwise, such a treaty would not recognize the inherent human nature of the early human embryo or fetus until after birth , and thus cloning them and using them for research - both "therapeutic" and "reproductive" -- would not be banned, and women undergoing "infertility treatments" could surely be put in danger. (lifeissues.net)
  • A well-respected medical ethicist from one of Canada's leading universities says Canada must not legalize embryonic cloning for any purpose, including therapeutic purposes. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The reader benefits from the scholar's clear explanation about embryonic stem-cell research and therapeutic cloning. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • experimentation on embryos which is not directly therapeutic is illicit. (archdiocese-no.org)
  • From the ethical point of view, so-called therapeutic cloning is even more serious. (archdiocese-no.org)
  • 5. In 2001, France and Germany requested the United Nations General Assembly to develop international conventions on human reproductive cloning, therapeutic cloning and research on stem cells. (who.int)
  • Many scientists argue that therapeutic cloning of specific human cells are vital for finding the cures for diseases like Alzheimer's and diabetes. (westerncarolinian.com)
  • Other policy options, such as supposed compromises that would prohibit "reproductive cloning" but permit "therapeutic cloning" by prohibiting not the act of creating a cloned embryo but the act of transferring a cloned embryo to a woman's uterus, would inherently mandate the wide-scale destruction of human embryos. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • If the cloned human organism is to be experimented upon and destroyed, the process is often called "therapeutic cloning. (cbc-network.org)
  • Note that each and every individual "loophole" discussed below that permits human cloning by default (and most bills have literally dozens of such loopholes) thus permits it for both "therapeutic" and for "reproductive" human cloning. (lifeissues.net)
  • In that debate, it was helpful to draw a clear distinction between reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning. (oxplore.org)
  • Therapeutic cloning is utilising cloning for the understanding and treatment of human disease. (oxplore.org)
  • Importantly, therapeutic cloning research continued and ultimately contributed to the development of a new technology -induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) technology-that holds out immense promise as a way of developing stem cell treatments that are 'customised' to an individual patient and can be created without the destruction of human embryos. (oxplore.org)
  • Natural methods of reproduction must be used, artificial insemination is however allowed. (europa.eu)
  • From artificial insemination to cloning to in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, the proliferation of reproductive technologies raises a host of complex scientific, social, and ethical questions. (gustavus.edu)
  • Modulation of expression of estrus, steroidogenesis and embryo development following peri-artificial insemination nutrient restriction in beef heifers. (tamu.edu)
  • This kind of cloning is today being performed at several scientific labs in the United States, despite the availability of alternative techniques that produce cells of nearly the same scientific and medical value but that require neither the creation nor destruction of human embryos. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • In vitro embryo production is important for research in animal reproduction, embryo transfer, transgenics, and cloning. (umsystem.edu)
  • Dr. Hinrichs' laboratory produced the first cloned foal in North America and developed many of the techniques that have supported the growth of ICSI and in vitro embryo production as a clinical tool for equine reproductive management worldwide. (univet.hu)
  • If research cloning is not stopped now, we face the prospect of the mass farming of human embryos and fetuses, and the transformation of the noble enterprise of biomedical research into a grotesque system of exploitation and death. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • A clone is an organism that is a genetic copy of an existing one. (who.int)
  • At that point - and this is important to understand - there is no more cloning to be done since a new human organism now exists. (cbc-network.org)
  • If the authors of this bill really meant what they appear to have written, their legislation would ban all human cloning, since as we have seen, biologically, a new human organism, that is, a new human being, comes into existence with the completion of SCNT. (cbc-network.org)
  • Or to put it the other way around, cloning, not implantation, is what produces a new and distinct human organism. (cbc-network.org)
  • … "embryo" means a human organism during the first 56 days of its development following fertilization or creation, excluding any time during which its development has been suspended, and includes any cell derived from such an organism that is used for the purpose of creating a human being. (hinxtongroup.org)
  • This is cloning, a process in which the body cell that donated the replacement nucleus supplies the chromosomes of the new human organism. (actionlife.org)
  • Whether the new organism is produced by fertilization or by cloning, each new human organism is a distinct entity. (actionlife.org)
  • Cloning, Organism" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) . (childrensmercy.org)
  • This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cloning, Organism" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cloning, Organism" was a major or minor topic of these publications. (childrensmercy.org)
  • Below are the most recent publications written about "Cloning, Organism" by people in Profiles. (childrensmercy.org)
  • While Somerville does not seem to disagree with the creation of embryos for in vitro fertilization, she states that embryos are indeed human life that should be respected. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The Threat of Human Cloning concludes by calling for laws prohibiting both human cloning and the creation of embryos for research. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • The Edinburgh Mouse Atlas, also called the e-Mouse Atlas Project (EMAP), is an online resource comprised of the e-Mouse Atlas (EMA), a detailed digital model of mouse development, and the e-Mouse Atlas of Gene Expression (EMAGE), a database that identifies sites of gene expression in mouse embryos. (asu.edu)
  • Illmensee used nuclear transfer techniques (cloning) to create early mouse embryos from adult mouse cells, a technique biologists used in later decades to help explain how embryonic cells function during development. (asu.edu)
  • In the early 1980s, Illmensee faced accusations of fraud when others were unable to replicate the results of his experiments with cloned mouse embryos. (asu.edu)
  • Influence of organochlorine pesticides on development of mouse embryos in vitro . (cdc.gov)
  • Scientists want to make cloned human embryos to get embryonic stem cells, which live inside early embryos and have the potential to cure a wide array of diseases. (irfi.org)
  • Cell lines derived from early embryos that have the potential to differentiate into all types of somatic cells as well as to form germ line cells, and hence whole animals, when injected into early embryos. (nationalacademies.org)
  • a) Note, again, the reference to only sexual human reproduction - "the moment of conception" - i.e., fertilization. (lifeissues.net)
  • Thus, while Ramsey agreed that there is a human being present immediately at fertilization, he did not agree that it was also a human embryo or a human person - the classic "pre-embryo" argument. (lifeissues.net)
  • Human cloning is intrinsically illicit in that, by taking the ethical negativity of techniques of artificial fertilization to their extreme, it seeks to give rise to a new human being without a connection to the act of reciprocal self-giving between the spouses and, more radically, without any link to sexuality. (archdiocese-no.org)
  • This paper gives an Islamic perspective on some of these advances, including abortion, in vitro fertilization, genetic engineering, cloning and stem cell research. (who.int)
  • In gestational surrogacy, the surrogate is implanted with an embryo created with an egg from another woman (either a commissioning parent, or donated from another individual) and the sperm from another man (either a commissioning parent, or donated from another individual). (eggdonorangels.com.au)
  • For example, a baby guar was recently cloned from a surrogate mother. (bestregularseeds.com)
  • Before the announcement in February 1997 of the cloning of a sheep by somatic cell nuclear transfer, existing legislation in a number of countries already precluded human cloning for reproductive purposes, sometimes implicitly. (who.int)
  • WHA50.37 of 1997 argues that human cloning is ethically unacceptable and contrary to human integrity and morality. (who.int)
  • Since the birth of Dolly in February of 1997, the idea of cloning has been in the minds of people all over the world. (westerncarolinian.com)
  • When the world learned in 1997 of Dolly the sheep, the first clone produced from an adult mammal, a broad public discussion about the ethics of human cloning ensued, largely focused on the nature, meaning, and future of human procreation. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Developments in biotechnology have raised new concerns about animal welfare, as farm animals now have their genomes modified (genetically engineered) or copied (cloned) to propagate certain traits useful to agribusiness, such as meat yield or feed conversion. (wikiquote.org)
  • Thus to use the phrase "of an existing or previously existing human being" to refer to the product of human cloning would not be a scientifically accurate description of the cloned or genetically engineered human embryo -- thus creating yet another loophole in the bill or treaty. (lifeissues.net)
  • Canadian regulations on embryonic stem cell research are woefully inadequate, but at least it is a criminal offence in this country to create a human embryo for medical research and to clone a human embryo for any purpose. (theinterim.com)
  • Potential of preimplantation genomic selection using the blastomere separation technique in bovine in vitro fertilized embryos. (researchmap.jp)
  • Evidence that interferon-tau secreted from Day-7 embryo in vivo generates anti-inflammatory immune response in the bovine uterus. (researchmap.jp)
  • The primary cloning technique is called "somatic cell nuclear transfer" (SCNT). (cbc-network.org)
  • The second way to reproduce is a strictly human invention - known as "asexual" reproduction - or more commonly, cloning. (cbc-network.org)
  • Cloning of a human being" means asexual reproduction by implanting or attempting to implant the product of nuclear transplantation [e.g., an embryo] into a uterus or substitute for a uterus with the purpose of producing a human being. (cbc-network.org)
  • This is junk biology since implanting isn't the act of asexual reproduction: SCNT cloning is. (cbc-network.org)
  • The bill purports to promote stem-cell research, while outlawing the cloning of a human being. (cbc-network.org)
  • While stem-cell research holds enormous potential for treating or even curing some diseases, the cloning of a human being is morally and ethically unacceptable…Any attempt to clone a human being is in direct conflict with the public policies of this state. (cbc-network.org)
  • Embryonic stem cells come from embryos, embryonic germ cells from testes, and adult stem cells can come from bone marrow. (cbc.ca)
  • 1. Cloning is an umbrella term traditionally used by scientists to describe different processes for duplicating biological material. (who.int)
  • However, following the successful derivation of human embryonic stem cells in 1998, the debate over human cloning largely shifted to the question of whether it is acceptable for scientists to create human embryos only to destroy them. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • But cloning research continued, and American scientists announced in 2013 that they had for the first time successfully obtained stem cells from cloned human embryos. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • In the middle of the year 2001 a group of scientists said cloning humans might be easier than cloning animals. (irfi.org)
  • Many scientists were dismayed and scientists involved in animal cloning warned of the many practical problems in cloning. (irfi.org)
  • The new work by scientists in Pittsburgh provides an explanation for why hundreds of attempts to clone monkeys have all failed despite successes in several other mammals. (irfi.org)
  • In the light of this information, Congress could settle for less stringent restrictions on embryo cloning studies, which scientists favor. (irfi.org)
  • The newly discovered obstacle makes it more likely than ever that rogue scientists' recent claims to have created cloned babies were fraud. (irfi.org)
  • Scientists can use cloned embryos to develop nerve cells to fix spinal cord injuries or insulin-producing cells to treat diabetes. (bestregularseeds.com)
  • Scientists are also using cloning to save endangered species of animal. (bestregularseeds.com)
  • This new method of generating stem cells does not require embryos as starting points and could be used to generate cells from many adult tissues, such as a patient's own skin cells,' said principal author Andras Nagy, senior investigator at Mount Sinai's Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute. (cbc.ca)
  • The source nuclear material can be embryo-derived, fetus-derived, or taken from an adult somatic cell. (childrensmercy.org)
  • Perhaps Ramsey would give other extraordinarily powerful arguments as to why human cloning is unethical, but he obviously would not be able to base it on his unscientific "pre-embryo" position. (lifeissues.net)
  • Some feel that the use of embryos for medical research is unethical. (westerncarolinian.com)
  • Cloning-for-biomedical-research is also profoundly unethical, as it turns human reproduction into a manufacturing process in the most literal sense: human embryos are created to serve as raw materials for the production of biomedical research supplies. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • This report is bad news for the unethical charlatans who have been preying on people by claiming they are able to clone people's loved ones,' said Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who led the new study in April 11, 2003 issue of the journal Science. (irfi.org)
  • WHA50.37, which states "the use of cloning for the replication of human individuals is ethically unacceptable and contrary to human integrity and morality. (who.int)
  • Some lawmakers agree and have introduced a bill that would ban any efforts to produce human clones but would permit somatic cell nuclear transplantation, the type of cloning used in the creation of Dolly in Scotland. (westerncarolinian.com)
  • Culture protocols for horse embryos after ICSI: Effect of myo-inositol and time of media change. (tamu.edu)
  • They just prevent the already existing human embryo who is traveling through the woman's or young girl's fallopian tube (uterine tube) from eventually implanting in the uterus. (lifeissues.net)
  • The use of the technique of nuclear transfer for reproduction of human beings is surrounded by strong ethical concerns and controversies and is considered a threat to human dignity. (who.int)
  • 2. Nuclear transfer is a technique used to duplicate genetic material by creating an embryo through the transfer and fusion of a diploid cell in an enucleated female oocyte.2 Cloning has a broader meaning than nuclear transfer as it also involves gene replication and natural or induced embryo splitting (see Annex 1). (who.int)
  • 3. Media reports on nuclear transfer are usually about one form, reproductive nuclear transfer, also known as reproductive cloning of human beings . (who.int)
  • More than 100 nuclear transfer procedures could be required to produce one viable clone. (wikiquote.org)
  • Embryo Transfer. (cengage.com)
  • Mares were killed 7.5-8.5 days after transfer and the uterus and oviducts flushed for embryo recovery. (bioone.org)
  • It is also our view that there are no sound reasons for treating the early-stage human embryo or cloned human embryo as anything special, or as having moral status greater than human somatic cells in tissue culture. (wikiquote.org)
  • Nations around the world began to respond the same way as many other countries called for the prohibition of human cloning. (westerncarolinian.com)
  • Eligible Australian women with a diagnosis of mitochondrial disease may have access to mitochondrial donation under amendments to the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 and the Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2002 which took effect in October 2022. (nhmrc.gov.au)
  • Research - Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2008. (eggdonorangels.com.au)
  • In her article, Somerville says Canada's Assisted Human Reproduction Act "reflects the view that to create embryos other than by sexual reproduction and other than to help people have children is inherently wrong. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • To create embryos with the intention of destroying them, even with the intention of helping the sick, is completely incompatible with human dignity, because it makes the existence of a human being at the embryonic stage nothing more than a means to be used and destroyed. (archdiocese-no.org)
  • Cloning in biotechnology refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments ( molecular cloning ), cells (cell cloning), or organisms . (wikiquote.org)
  • In particular, he would like the Congress to rescind legislation first enacted during the Clinton administration that prohibits the use of federal funding to create or destroy human embryos for medical research. (theinterim.com)
  • Meanwhile, reproductive cloning has become virtually a non-issue, with few seriously suggesting that we should be striving to create clones of existing people. (oxplore.org)
  • This is exactly how nature intended, and it gives breeders the freedom to create a new cultivar or take clones of plants with the exact characteristics they desire. (bestregularseeds.com)
  • Again, Saunders is referring to SCNT as "THE" cloning procedure, when there are many other ways to clone a human being as well, and he is scientifically mis-defining the product of SCNT (i.e., the cloned human embryo). (lifeissues.net)
  • General Assembly the adoption of a declaration on human cloning by which Member States were called upon to prohibit all forms of human cloning inasmuch as they are incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life. (who.int)
  • Vote to prohibit human cloning for either medical research or reproductive purposes. (ontheissues.org)
  • These preparatory interregional and interdisciplinary meetings focused on the following areas: cloning and human reproductive health, biologicals, organ transplantation, research, and medical genetics. (who.int)
  • In terms of existing ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects, human cloning for reproductive purposes raises concerns about risk in relation to benefit, informed consent, and accountability. (who.int)
  • While some observers disagree with any use of embryos for scientific research, the overall position taken by the Assisted Human Reproduction Act seeks to maintain respect for human life and its transmission," she says in her conclusion. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Clinton declared a ban on all federal funding of human cloning research. (westerncarolinian.com)
  • The most recent bill bans all cloning for purposes of research and reproduction. (westerncarolinian.com)
  • In response to this bill, those who were opposed proposed a bill that would allow cloning for research purposes only. (westerncarolinian.com)
  • NHMRC's Embryo Research Licensing Committee (ERLC) is the responsible authority for the new licensing framework. (nhmrc.gov.au)
  • Although the latest scientific work related to cloning has been focused on potential medical applications, much of that research is relevant to the creation of cloned children. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Cloning-for-biomedical-research also endangers the health and safety of the women called on to undergo dangerous hormone treatments to serve as egg donors. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • b) Any new prescription or non-prescription drug or medical treatment that will use human fetal or embryonic tissue, cell lines, DNA or components from procured abortion or in-vitro fertilized embryos that have been donated or otherwise produced or reproduced in research. (consciencelaws.org)
  • e) Any person or patient who is the recipient of a prescription or non-prescription drug, vaccination or medical procedure that would involve the use of human fetal or embryonic tissue, cell lines, DNA or components from procured abortion or in-vitro fertilized embryos that have been donated or otherwise produced or reproduced sexually or asexually in research. (consciencelaws.org)
  • On April 11, 2003, Washington Post Staff Writer, Rick Weiss, reported 'New research suggests that it may be a lot harder to clone people than to clone other animals, an unexpected scientific twist that could influence the escalating congressional debate over human cloning and embryo research. (irfi.org)
  • But opponents of human embryo research were afraid that the new research not only identifies previously unrecognized hurdles to human cloning, but also points the way to overcoming those hurdles. (irfi.org)
  • Her research focuses on assisted reproduction in the horse, exploring aspects both of basic biology and clinically-applicable technology. (univet.hu)
  • The "pros" and "cons" of human cloning research have already been dealt with at length in the literature, so they will not be reviewed here. (lifeissues.net)
  • Rather, after having published analyses of dozens of state, national, federal and international legislative attempts to ban human cloning research, I simply wish to offer seriously considered suggestions for the use of scientifically accurate language and definitions to be used in such endeavors in order to prevent loopholes which would result in much human cloning not being really banned. (lifeissues.net)
  • Voted YES on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (ontheissues.org)
  • The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. (ontheissues.org)
  • Voted YES on banning human cloning, including medical research. (ontheissues.org)
  • Obama has even gone so far as to suggest that the Congress should authorize human cloning for medical research. (theinterim.com)
  • Why, though, can Obama not grasp that human cloning for medical research is also dangerous and profoundly wrong, if only because it is all too likely to lead to human cloning for reproduction? (theinterim.com)
  • In the ongoing debate about cloning human embryos for research, and about destroying them in order to harvest their stem cells, it is important to keep some basic facts in mind. (actionlife.org)
  • Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2008. (eggdonorangels.com.au)
  • This article from Dr Chris Gyngell, Prof. Julian Savulescu and Dr Tom Douglas (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics) argues that we should edit embryos for research, not for reproduction. (oxplore.org)
  • In some countries, such as the UK, certain forms of gene editing research on human embryos are legal if the embryos are not implanted into a woman, and are destroyed after 14 days of development. (oxplore.org)
  • A vital question is whether we should allow this type of research - the editing of human embryos that will never be implanted into a woman, or indeed leave a petri-dish. (oxplore.org)
  • Many people feared that allowing research on cloning techniques would lead to the creation of cloned babies. (oxplore.org)
  • In cloning, a distinction between reproductive applications and research enabled clearly beneficial research to proceed while controversial applications were set aside. (oxplore.org)
  • We propose that the parallel distinction should be drawn, and emphasised, in discussions of GE: we should distinguish between the gene editing of embryos for research purposes, and for reproductive purposes. (oxplore.org)
  • Using GE on human embryos would be valuable in medical research for at least three reasons. (oxplore.org)
  • … "human clone" means an embryo that, as a result of the manipulation of human reproductive material or an in vitro embryo, contains a diploid set of chromosomes obtained from a single - living or deceased - human being, fetus, or embryo. (hinxtongroup.org)
  • Even the world's most famous sheep clone, Dolly, who died recently suffered from problems linked to this gene. (irfi.org)
  • It seems that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and the authors have allowed themselves to over-interpretate their interesting results,' said Professor Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute, in Edinburgh, leader of the team, which cloned Dolly the sheep. (irfi.org)
  • My 400-page doctoral dissertation was titled, A Philosophical and Scientific Analysis of the Nature of the Early Human Embryo (Georgetown University 1991). (lifeissues.net)
  • No objective, even though noble in itself, such as a foreseeable advantage to science, to other human beings or to society, can in any way justify experimentation on living human embryos or foetuses, whether viable or not, either inside or outside the mother's womb. (archdiocese-no.org)
  • 2. Over the years, the international community has tried without success to build a consensus on an international convention against the reproductive cloning of human beings. (who.int)
  • 3. Creating awareness among ministries of health in the African Region will provide them with critical and relevant information on the reproductive cloning of human beings and its implications to the health status of the general population. (who.int)
  • 7. The WHO Regional Committee for Africa is invited to review this document for information and guidance concerning reproductive cloning of human beings. (who.int)
  • Can Human beings be Cloned? (irfi.org)
  • And now Washington joins the infamous list with Senate Bill 5594, a thoroughly disingenuous piece of legislation that purports to outlaw the cloning of human beings, but by manipulating language and redefining terms, actually permits human cloning and gestation of the resulting cloned embryos through the ninth month. (cbc-network.org)
  • Claims that you could clone individual treatments of human beings to treat common diseases like diabetes, suggests you need a huge supply of human eggs. (wikiquote.org)
  • More than 90% of cloning attempts fail to produce viable offspring. (wikiquote.org)
  • In July of 2001, the House of Representatives voted 265-162 to ban human cloning for any purpose. (westerncarolinian.com)
  • Opponents argue that any embryo has the potential to develop into a mature human. (cbc.ca)
  • In biology , cloning is the process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria , insects or plants reproduce asexually . (wikiquote.org)
  • a) It would seem that Saunders uses the "potential" argument here quite appropriately, but it is critical that the term be understood properly in order to deflect any misunderstandings or misinterpretations - especially if the term were to be used in any U. N. treaty on human cloning. (lifeissues.net)
  • If the term "potential" were to be incorporated into a U. N. treaty on human cloning, it would be necessary to clarify its use as referring to an already existing human being/person. (lifeissues.net)
  • The first is that great old standard, "sexual" reproduction, in which sperm meets egg. (cbc-network.org)
  • Moreover, most early-stage embryos that are produced naturally (that is, through the union of egg and sperm resulting from sexual intercourse) fail to implant and are therefore wasted or destroyed. (wikiquote.org)
  • Normally, the embryo comes into being through sexual conception, in which the female egg cell is fertilized by a male sperm cell. (actionlife.org)
  • In sexual reproduction the new individual gets half of its chromosomes from the nucleus of the sperm cell and half from the nucleus of the egg cell. (actionlife.org)
  • With the purpose of establishing a tradition, the 1st Conference of the European College of Animal Reproduction (ECAR) was held in Vienna between the 4th and 6th of July 2019. (univet.hu)
  • Associate Editor for the journal Animal Reproduction Science. (univet.hu)
  • The legislation also indicates that children born as a result of reproduction treatment using donor gametes (donor semen, egg donation or embryo donation) shall be registered to all effects and purposes as the child of the couple who have undergone the treatment. (institutobernabeu.com)
  • The report offers an ethical and policy analysis, articulating what makes cloning morally repugnant and calling for the practice to be definitively prohibited in the United States. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Thus if by "potential" one means "potency" - i.e., that the early human embryo already exists with a human nature that is already there, and has its own inherent power or capacity (provided by that human nature) to simply grow bigger and bigger through all the usual developmental stages through birth, then such a statement stands as accurate - both scientifically and philosophically. (lifeissues.net)
  • On the other hand, if by "potential" one means that the human embryo is not a human being or human person yet , but might be later once it has been born (i.e., a "baby"), then that statement is both scientifically and philosophically incorrect. (lifeissues.net)
  • The term refers to several specific techniques aimed at ensuring only healthy mitochondria are passed on to an embryo. (nhmrc.gov.au)
  • The subsequent discovery of promising alternative techniques for generating stem cells without creating or destroying embryos seemed to show that scientific progress would obviate the demand for cloning. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Current Spanish legislation, ACT 14/2006, 26 May, on assisted human reproduction techniques provides for total gamete donor anonymity . (institutobernabeu.com)
  • Thus, e.g., leaving out certain human cloning techniques in a bill means that the bill will not ban the use of those forms of human cloning techniques -- and thus they will be allowed. (lifeissues.net)
  • Most human embryos reproduced by most human cloning techniques would actually be genetically unique -- i.e., having never existed before. (lifeissues.net)
  • Organisms produced through the former process are usually full clones of their mothers while the ones produced through the latter method are not. (worldatlas.com)
  • The formation of one or more genetically identical organisms derived by vegetative reproduction from a single cell. (childrensmercy.org)
  • Stipulate that those donating the embryos give written consent and do not receive any compensation for the donation. (ontheissues.org)