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WASHINGTON, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scientists in Oregon announced today that they had created cloned human embryos, and then destroyed the embryos to extract embryonic stem cells. The cloning technique is essentially the same one used to create Dolly the cloned sheep, with some modifications to make cloning work using human eggs and human cells. This is the first claim of growing human embryonic stem cells from cloned human embryos since the fraudulent claims in...

USCCB Pro-Life Chair Responds to Cloning Breakthrough in Oregon Says Creating Embryos To Destroy Them Objectionable to Non-Catholics Too Notes That Morally Acceptable Scientific Advances Already Addressing Same Goals WASHINGTON, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Human cloning for any purpose is inconsistent with the moral responsibility to "treat each member of the human family as a unique gift of God, as a person with his or her own inherent dignity," said the chairman of...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The scientist who inspired the creation of Dolly the Sheep has now said human cloning is within our reach, bringing some hope of restoration to parents who have lost their child to a tragic death, reported the Telegraph. Nobel prize-winning Sir John Gurdon has been furthering the study of cloning since the 1950s and has had success cloning animals such as frogs. Now, he’s claiming we could begin to see fully functional human...

To Protect Women from Exploitation as Egg Donors and Enforce the NY Legislature's Ban on Taxpayer Money Going to Advance Human Cloning, Feminists Choosing Life of New York Will Appeal Flawed Lower Court Ruling ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Feminists Choosing Life of New York has cleared the way for the Appellate Division, Third Department, to hear FCLNY's challenge to the State Health Department's payment-for-eggs program. If allowed to stand, the State's scheme...

The dog who found the last survivor beneath rubble at Ground Zero after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City has been cloned, it's owner says. James Symington's search-and-rescue German shepherd Trakr" has since died, but he got five perfect clones free Wednesday from the Northern California cloning company BioArts International. Symington, a retired Canadian police officer who now lives in Los Angeles, won a contest BioArts had to find the most clone-worthy dog. Once in a...

On Wednesday, Iranian scientists announced that they have cloned a goat and plan to conduct future experiments in search of stroke treatments.According to Dr. Mohammed Hossein Nasr e Isfahani, head of the Royan Research Institute, the female goat, name Hana, was born early Wednesday morning in Isfahan, a central Iranian city."With the birth of Hana, Iran is among five countries in the world cloning a baby goat," Isfahani told the Associated Press.Two and a half years ago Iran cloned...

A controversial Italian fertility specialist said on Wednesday that he has successfully created three human babies through the process of cloning. Dr. Severino Antinori said he has cloned two boys and one girl. "I helped give birth to three children with the human cloning technique," Antinori said in an interview with Oggi Weekly. "It involved two boys and a girl who are nine years old today. They were born healthy and they are in excellent health now."He said he used the...

Brigitte Boisselier breaks 5-year silence, offers to ease cloning costs for Clonaid clients willing to go publicSix years to the day after the birth of Baby Eve, the first cloned child, Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, head of the company that leads the Clonaid project, said Eve and other babies cloned by her company are growing up healthy and normal - and with no one invading their families' privacy."We've helped almost 100 families who were desperate to have a child," Boisselier said....

The Vatican released a bioethics document on Friday officially updating its opposition to embryonic stem-cell research, in-vitro fertilization and human cloning.The document also said it approved of some forms of gene therapy and encouraged stem cell research using adult cells. And it said parents could in good conscience inoculate their children with vaccines produced with cells derived from aborted fetuses.Many in the religious sects awaited a more official ruling on new drugs that block...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dignitas Personae (The Dignity of a Person), an Instruction from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) on ethical issues arising from biomedical research, provides guidance on how to respect human life and human procreation in our heavily scientific age, said Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. "We welcome the Instruction as theologians, medical personnel,...