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These human cloning news stories are updated from searches of 100,000 global publications and newspapers on human cloning and animal cloning. 13,530 separate news stories / articles / features on human cloning or animal cloning in the last 12 months alone. See below for human cloning links, human cloning videos (RealVideo) etc. These web pages have had over 5.5 million hits in last 12 months, mainly on human cloning and genetic engineering. Author Dr Patrick Dixon.

Human cloning may mean cloned children die very young - cloning experiments on mice in Japan show damage to immune systems, risks of death from pneumonia, liver failure, spontaneous abortions and abnormal births. 10 out of 12 cloned mice born apparently healthy at birth lived less than 800 days. Scotsman 11 Feb 2002

Dolly the sheep may have arthritis caused by genes older than they should be. Previous research showed Dolly's telomeres were shorter in her chromosomes than you would expect. It seems these indicators of aging are evidence that Dolly at birth may have been as old genetically as her mother from whom cells were taken to make her. Numerous reports in press. January 2001

Pig cloning from adult boars successful - Infigen and Genmark announcement. PR Newswire Feb 11 2001

Headlines almost every week over last few months on human cloning experiments. Summary: many centers continue a global race to produce the world's first cloned human being. Advanced Cell Technology has announced that they succeeded in combining an adult human cell with a human egg and saw it begin to divide. No reason to doubt them - they did the same with a cow's egg instead of a human egg over three year's previously. December 2001

UK Judges rule that laws against cloned babies being made are totally invalid. The reason is that the laws cover products of conception but in the act of cloning there is no conventional fertilisation of egg by sperm. Parliament rushed ...