Clones

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emergency laws through but what is the point when most nations of the world have even less laws covering such things? December 2001

Two separate animal cloning studies show insulin producing cells can be made from a cloned animal embryo. New York's Rockefeller University and Sloan-Kettering Institute made a cloned embryo from a mouse tail cell combined with a mouse egg - work led by Teruhiko Wakayama. This fuels debate over human cloning experiments, where the aim is to create an embryo for medical research, rather than for implantation. Similar cloning experiment conducted by U.S. National Institutes of Health - Ron McKay. Wall Street Journal reporting Science Journal 27 April 2001

US to ban human cloning? New bill introduced to Congress. May not be enough to prevent human cloning experiments in the US leading to implantations and births elsewhere. Many reports - 26 April 2001

UK announces ban on human cloning - but read the small print. Fact: Parliament has only just approved human cloning experiments (January 2001 see below) for medical research, and now it emerges that there is an embarrassing gap in law, which means a doctor implanting such a cloned embryo could not be prosecuted. In theory it would breach guidelines by the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority - but these could be altered at any time on w whim of an unelected committee, dominated by research scientists. Fact: many laws were drawn up before human cloning was thought possible. So for example you can have laws covering fertilization and the products of it - but a clone is NOT a product of fertilization. Human clones are made as embryos by combining an adult or child cell with an egg from which the genes have been removed. The Herald 20 April 2001

New animal cloning centre for China. Hong Kong Pharmaceutical Holdings has teamed with the Yangzhou University to build a cloning research centre.The research centre - Yanda HKP Genetic ...