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CLONING



Cloning Cows
With just homemade needles and some cells from an ear biopsy, Jose Cibelli of Cyagra demonstrates how to build a blue-ribbon steer.

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March 2001 | Updated Jan. 2002 cbc
Dolly, the world's most famous clone
INDEPTH: GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION

Cloning experts were skeptical about the claim, saying cloning a human is technically demanding and the group lacks the skills to do it.

Cloned Kitten many links Find [43] W-N pages On cloning

2008

Saturday 19 January 2008 US team makes embryo clone of men
US scientists say they have produced embryos that are clones of two men, in a step towards producing patient-specific stem cells.

Friday Feb 17, 2006 nyt All Clones Are Not the Same By MICHAEL GAZZANIGA
Calling human cloning in all its forms an "egregious abuse," as President Bush did in his State of the Union speech, is a serious mischaracterization.

2005

Saturday Dec 24, 2005 nyt Korean Cloning Scientist Quits Over Report He Faked Research
By CHOE SANG-HUN and NICHOLAS WADE
Dr. Hwang Woo Suk resigned from his university after a panel reported that he had fabricated a paper on cloning.

Saturday Dec 24, 2005 ts South Korean faked 9 lines of stem cells
SEOUL—South Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk faked results of at least nine of 11 stem-cell lines he claimed to have created, a deliberate deception that "damages the foundation of science," his university said yesterday.

Tuesday Dec 20, 2005 nyt South Korean Scientist Says He'll Prove Cloning Method
By JAMES BROOKE
A South Korean scientist lashed out at his critics, saying he would prove the validity of his stem cell cloning technique within two weeks.

The Collapsing Claims on Cloning
The South Korean stem cell fiasco should serve as a stimulus to get American scientists cracking on their own plans for therapeutic cloning research.

Triumphs, Troubles & Tea
Nov 16, 2005

Nov 16, 2005 Dogged Pursuit
First sheep, now a dog—what next? How a lab in South Korea perfected a cloning technique that is likely to transform medical research around the world

Saturday Nov 26, 2005 nyt Korean Leaves Cloning Center in Ethics Furor
By JAMES BROOKE
The South Korean stem cell researcher apologized for lying about the sources of some human eggs used in his research.


Wednesday Aug 17, 2005 ts Cloning can`t create perfect pet
Many people shake their heads with wonder and amusement at the way animal lovers behave over their pets. However, there is no denying that with more than 12 million dogs and cats sharing our homes, Canadians care deeply about the well-being of these special family members. We cherish our time together and we mourn their passing.

Thursday Apr 21, 2005 globe
Human cloning urged for stem-cell research
Scientists ask world's nations to limit bans to preventing reproductive cloning

Wednesday Mar 9, 2005 UNITED NATIONS
The UN General Assembly has adopted a motion forbidding human cloning entirely. The resolution drafted by Belgium and supported by the United States prevailed 84-34, with 37 nations abstaining. The Assembly rejected a competing resolution proposed by Belgium that would have banned cloning for the purpose of human reproduction but allowed stem cell research. [bad news]

Thursday Feb 10, 2005 ts
Cloning humans for a cure
OTTAWA—Fears that Canadians will miss out on vital health breakthroughs were rekindled yesterday by the news that the creator of Dolly the sheep received a green light to clone human embryos for medical research.

Saturday Dec 25, 2004 cbcclick for Julie and Little Nicky (AP photo)br>PET CAT CLONED FOR $50,000 US The first cloned-to-order pet sold in the United States has been delivered to a Texas woman, who paid $50,000 US to have a kitten created from the DNA of her dead cat.

Monday 29 Mar 2004 cbc
DONATING FROZEN EMBRYOS TO SCIENCE POSES MORAL DILEMMA Canada's reproductive technologies bill received royal assent Friday. It bans cloning of human embryos for research, posing a moral dilemma for some people. [backward regressive dumb.... let real people die!]

Saturday 27 Mar 2004 cbc
DONATING FROZEN EMBRYOS TO SCIENCE POSES MORAL DILEMMA
Canada's reproductive technologies bill received royal assent Friday. It bans cloning of human embryos for research, posing a moral dilemma for some people.

Sunday 14 Mar 2004 cbc
REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY AGENCY STILL YEARS AWAY The federal government's bill on reproductive technology will become law in a few weeks, but Ottawa won't be fully ready to enforce it for a few years, a Health Canada official says.

Wednesday Jan 21, 2004 bbc
Who makes babies?
...and other questions a cloned child might ask its parents

Sunday Jan 18, 2004 bbc
Doctor 'implants cloned embryo'
A controversial US fertility specialist says he has implanted a cloned embryo into a woman's womb.

Sunday Jan 18, 2004 ts
Doctor claims human clone
LONDON—A controversial U.S. fertility expert is being widely condemned for sensational claims that he implanted a cloned human embryo into a 35-year-old woman.

Sunday Jan 18, 2004 ts
Hark, RRSP hunting season has begun

Saturday Jan 17, 2004 bbc
UK NEWSConcern over human cloning claims
A US fertility specialist is planning to implant a cloned human embryo in a woman's womb but experts say it is "unethical and irresponsible".

2003

Saturday Nov 1, 2003 bbc

Saturday Nov 1, 2003 US 'will rule cloned food safe'
Milk and meat from cloned animals will not need special approval, a US regulator is likely to decide.

Saturday Nov 1, 2003 cbc
MPS PASS CLONING BILL Members of Parliament have passed the federal government's reproductive technology bill, which includes regulations on human cloning, stem-cell research and sperm donors.

Sunday Oct 5, 2003 ts
Backbench MP plots to block bill on cloning
`Land mines ahead,' warns Szabo
He's plotting strategies to stall bill

Sunday Oct 5, 2003 OTTAWA:
MPS WILL LIKELY RESUME ANTI-CLONING DEBATE ON MONDAY A so-called "God squad" of Liberal backbenchers is joining forces with the Canadian Alliance to delay Canada's reproductive technology bill. Bill C-13 was to have had its final day of Commons debate on Friday But Liberal MP Paul Szabo, a vocal opponent, used some procedural manoeuvring to delay it. The bill bans all forms of human cloning, but its critics argue loopholes would allow some forms. MPs criticized the government for not supporting a UN resolution that would ban all forms of human cloning. Health Minister Anne McLellan's office has argued Canada is supporting the less-stringent option because it has the strongest chance of achieving international consensus. The bill will likely be debated again Monday.

Tuesday Sep 23, 2003 bbc
It may not be possible to clone a baby
Call for ban on human cloning

Scientists from around the world are to call for an international ban on the cloning of humans.
Only a few countries, including the UK, have so far outlawed it.
All attempts to introduce a world-wide ban have been stymied because some countries want that to include the use of all cloning techniques in medical research.

Tuesday Sep 23, 2003 bbc
SCIENTISTS CALL FOR BAN ON HUMAN CLONING
The United Nations should ban cloning of humans, many of the world's leading scientific academies said Monday.

Friday Aug 8, 2003
Researchers give clone health warning
Animal clones born healthy could still face serious health problems later in life, warn researchers.

Aug 7th 2003 ec
Prometea unbound Scientists have announced the arrival of Prometea, the first-ever cloned horse. Apart from leading to excited talk of races featuring history’s champion mounts, this raises questions about the ethics and usefulness of the technique.

Thursday Aug 7, 2003 cbc
The foal Prometea 
Courtesy: Giovanna Lazzari
MARE GIVES BIRTH TO HER IDENTICAL TWIN
Italian researchers have announced the birth of a cloned horse, raising the possibility of copying champion race horses.
Unlike the U.S. effort, the Italian clone was born to a mare who was also the source of her DNA. That makes the mother and the foal identical twins.

Saturday May 31, 2003 bbc The first clone of any animal in the horse familyCloning first for horse family
...They suggest their work could lead to champion racehorses being routinely cloned in the future.
The research is published in the journal Science.
Idaho Gem looks the perfect foal from his pointy ears to his still slightly unsteady legs. His birth sets a number of milestones.

Saturday Apr 12, 2003 bbc Human cloning 'flawed'
Human cloning may never be possible because of a quirk of biology, a scientific study suggests.

Cloned cells from an ordinary cow

Wednesday Apr 9, 2003 cbc
SCIENTISTS CLONE ENDANGERED ASIAN CATTLE Cloning technology has reproduced a pair of endangered wild cattle bulls, but one of the newborns weighed twice as much as expected and was euthanized Tuesday.

Saturday Mar 1, 2003 nyt
Cloning Countdown
This year's struggle over human cloning got off to a predictably bad start when the House of Representatives approved a bill to ban all forms of human cloning.
bbc Human cloning
America’s House of Representatives has voted, for the second time, to ban all forms of human cloning. But the bill faces a tough test in the Senate, where an alternative bill would allow therapeutic cloning, which offers the hope of treating diseases like Alzheimer’s and diabetes

Feb 28, 2003 nyt
House Votes to Ban All Human Cloning
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 — Warning that human cloning amounted to a dark and dangerous step into an unethical realm of science, the House of Representatives voted today to ban all human-cloning experiments, whether for baby-making or to create cells that might be used to treat disease.

Sunday Feb 23, 2003 nyt
The Other Baby Experiment
By REBECCA L. SKLOOT
If the far-off prospect of cloning can arouse such heated debate, surely the safety of current infertility treatments can do the same.

 Sunday Feb 16, 2003
Goodbye Dolly
The implications of cloned sheep's death

Friday Feb 14, 2003 ec Dolly, the world's most famous sheep, has diedDOLLY THE CLONED SHEEP DIES Dolly, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult, has been euthanized, scientists said Friday.
A veterinary exam confirmed the six-year-old sheep had a progressive lung disease. Her cells had started to show signs of aging faster than a typical animal. ...Sheep normally live to age 11 or 12, ....Apart from the arthritis in the hip and knee of her left hind leg, Dolly had been a healthy animal that gave birth to six lambs, the team's creator, Dr. Ian Wilmut, said in Jan. 2002.

Wednesday Jan 29, 2003 OTTAWA: CLONING DEBATE RAGES ON The legislation to ban cloning in Canada continues in its third reading in the House of Commons. More than 100 amendments have been presented since the latest version of the bill was introduced in the House. An earlier version of the legislation died on the House's order paper when the House adjourned without first approving it. Debate over the bill has assumed a special relevance since the unconfirmed claims by the Raelian sect that it has cloned two babies. All five political parties represented in the House agree cloning should be banned, but there's disagreement over certain aspects of the legislation, including research on stem cells.

Monday Jan 27, 2003 ts
CP Photo/Rachele Labrecque  
Cloned cows give better milk, according to New Zealand scientists.   Cloned cows mean better milk: Expert Protein-enriched milk could be boon to dairy industry ....The New Zealand research team used an advanced cloning technique to successfully produce transgenic Friesen calves whose milk contained up to 20 per cent more protein than from ordinary Friesen cows.
"This is potentially very important economically. The Canadian dairy industry gets very excited if the protein content in milk increases by 5 per cent between different herds,"

Tuesday Jan 21, 2003 MONTREAL: CANADIANS OVERWHELMINGLY AGAINST HUMAN CLONING A public opinion poll suggests that Canadians are overwhelmingly opposed to cloning human beings. The Leger Marketing survey suggests 84 per cent of Canadians are against the controversial practise. Only five per cent are in favour. A bare majority of Canadians, 53 per cent, said they would support the cloning of human embryos to help treat disease. Thirty-two per cent were against the idea.
84% of Canadians oppose cloning, poll finds
MONTREAL -- Canadians were overwhelmingly opposed to cloning human beings, but there was more openness to cloning human embryos to help treat diseases, a poll suggests.

Monday Jan 13, 2003
No problem No reason not to it could be better meatCOMPANY WANTS TO SELL 'CLONED MEAT' IN CANADA
A livestock company has made a request to Health Canada to sell meat from cloned animals.

Monday Jan 6, 2003 Three more 'clones' due
The doctor who says she has produced two cloned babies in the past weeks tells the BBC that three more will be born by February.

Jan 4 bbc Second cloned baby 'due'
The group which says that the first cloned human has been born claims a second baby is due this weekend

Friday Jan 3, 2003 cbc
PARENTS OF 'CLONE' MAY NOT ALLOW DNA TESTS The parents of a newborn girl claimed to be the world's first human clone are having second thoughts about allowing DNA tests to be done to prove it.

Friday Jan 3, 2003 bbc
Should human cloning be banned?

Friday Jan 3, 2003 A bill governing new reproductive technologies tabled last year will also be debated in the new year, though the bill is highly controversial and a resolution may not be reached. Bill C-13 would outlaw most cloning techniques, including those that many scientists consider valuable for research. It would allow for stem cell research using human embryos, something which has drawn strong opposition from pro-life MPs including some Liberals.

2002

Sunday Dec 29, 2002 rci
OTTAWA: BILL TO BAN CLONING AT COMMITTEE STAGE A promise made by a company to bring human cloning clinics to Canada would be prevented by federal legislation. A bill to ban human cloning has passed the committee stage in Ottawa and is expected to gain passage early in the new year. It would also ban the cloning of human embryos for research or therapeutic purposes. Legislation or guidelines to ban human cloning are also pending in dozens of other countries, including the United States. And some countries, including Britain, Israel, Japan and Germany, already have banned it. Clonaid, founded by the Quebec-based Raelians cult, claims a baby girl was born Thursday as a result of creating an embryo from her mother's cloned genetic material. It has yet to provide any evidence to back up its claim. But Clonaid chief scientist Brigitte Boisselier says the proof is coming. She also says he company expects to set up cloning clinics in countries around the world.

Wednesday Dec 25, 2002 guardian
Human cloning
Fertility experts pour scorn on cloned baby claims Leading fertility experts across the world last night united in heaping derision on the claim that a biotechnology company had produced the world's first cloned human being.

Wednesday Dec 25, 2002 cbc
Brigitte Boisselier SECT CLAIMS TO HAVE CLONED HUMAN BABY Many in the scientific community were left deeply skeptical after a Quebec-based religious sect announced Friday it had created a human clone.

Saturday Dec 28, 2002
CRITICS DOUBT GROUP HAS CLONED A HUMAN
Critics of the Raelians are reacting to the announcement of a successfully cloned human with skepticism and mistrust.

Tuesday Nov 26, 2002 cbc
JANUARY DUE DATE FOR CLONED BABY: FERTILITY DOCTOR The world's first cloned baby will be born at the beginning of January, a controversial Italian fertility expert announced Tuesday.

  Wednesday Jul 24, 2002 Human cloning loophole closed
A document which accidentally cleared the way for human cloning is corrected by the European Patent Office.

Saturday Jun 8, 2002 cbc
PATENTS OK FOR HIGHER LIFE FORMS: CDN PANEL A government advisory committee has recommended that Ottawa allow cloned plants and animals to be patented.

Monday May 27, 2002 ec
GENETIC DEFECTS MAY EXPLAIN CLONING FAILURES Errors in genetic programming could help explain why so many cloned animals die, researchers say.

Sunday May 26, 2002 nyt As Congress Stalls, States Pursue Cloning Debate After nearly a year of emotional arguments in Congress, the national debate over the future of human cloning has shifted to the states.

Sunday May 26, 2002 nyt The Wonders of Genetics Breed a New Art With the mapping of the human genome, artists have stuttered, fumed and wondered at the dazzling science of genetics and its darker questions.

Sunday May 12, 2002 cbc GENE LINKED TO REPRODUCTIVE CLONING PROBLEMS The activity of a single gene may help explain why mammalian cloning is so inefficient, scientists say.

Sunday May 12, 2002 cbc REPRODUCTION BILL ADDRESSES SOME CONCERNS: RESEARCHERS, RELIGIOUS LEADERS Ottawa's new bill on human reproduction received a mixed response as both sides of the contentious debate say it doesn't go far enough.

Saturday May 11, 2002
REPRODUCTION BILL ADDRESSES SOME CONCERNS: RESEARCHERS, RELIGIOUS LEADERS
OTTAWA - Ottawa's new bill on human reproduction received a mixed response as both sides of the contentious debate say it doesn't go far enough. Federal Health Minister Anne McLellan tabled the Act Respecting Assisted Human Reproduction Thursday.

The proposed legislation permits limited research on embryonic stem cells. The bill says research can be carried out on embryos that families no longer need to reproduce. Members of the scientific community, while pleased with the bill, say they need fewer restrictions in order to make any progress.

INDEPTH: Addallah Daar, director of the applied ethics and biotechnology program at the University of Toronto, says the good parts of the bill far outweigh the bad. He says he's impressed with the legislation's call for the creation of an independent regulatory agency whose mission will be to keep pace with a fast-paced field. "It reduces the pressure to be definitive with the legislation at the first attempt," said Daar. But he points out some types of research the government wants banned could be controlled with regulations. Other groups want the government to tread lightly.

Religious leaders say the government must be cautious in dealing with the controversial issue of stem cell research and cloning. The mere mention of "spare embryos" in the bill offends Catholic Archbishop Terrence Prendergast.

Speaking for the Canadian Council of Catholic Bishops, he says their principle is that "you can't really use human beings as objects." Prendergast says he's pleased with much of the bill, especially the ban on all forms of cloning. He credits the government for its consultation process. People suffering from diseases say they're looking forward to any medical breakthroughs the new bill might allow.

Margaret Turner, who has Parkinson's disease, says she doesn't have any ethical problems with stem cell research. She says she is just trying to stave off the next stage of the disease, which would limit her mobility. "Right now, everyone that has Parkinson's, including myself, is worried, we're running out of time," said Turner. McLellan hopes to have the bill passed by the summer.

Friday May 10, 2002 cbc
BILL LAYS OUT REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY RULES The federal government has introduced a controversial bill on reproductive technology that would allow research on embryonic stem cells under certain conditions. 9

Wednesday May 1, 2002 cnn
Far left, far right unite on cloning bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Flanked by Nobel prize-winning scientists and patients who hope cloning technology will one day cure them, senators from two far ends of the political spectrum introduced a bill Tuesday to ban human cloning but allow cloning research to go ahead. Mbr>"Nuclear transplants" is the shorthand favored by Specter for somatic cell nuclear transfer -- the process used to make cloned animals and which he supports using to make balls of cells from which human embryonic stem cells could be taken.
Stem cells of all kinds are valued by scientists because they have the potential to become a variety of different cells and tissues. Those taken from embryos are especially powerful, because they can form any cell or tissue in the body.
It is hoped they could be used for tissue and even organ transplants, to treat diseases including cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's and diabetes.
Using cloning technology would allow a patient to become skin, for instance, and using it to make a very early embryo from which the stem cells could be grown...."It is more a religious matter and a philosophical matter than a scientific matter," added Specter. "Life does not begin in a petri dish."

Thursday Apr 11, 2002 bbc
Bush presses for human cloning ban President Bush urges the US Senate to support a total ban on human cloning, saying life is "not a commodity". ..."It would be a mistake for the US Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber "

Thursday Apr 11, 2002 nyt
Bush Makes Fervent Bid to Get Senate to Ban Cloning Research President Bush delivered his strongest condemnation of human cloning experiments in a speech designed to persuade the Senate to ban the research.

Wednesday Apr 10, 2002 nyt
Bush Rallies Opponents of Cloning President Bush is inviting opponents of cloning research to the White House on Wednesday to rally support for legislation that would prohibit all types of human cloning

Sunday, April 07, 2002 'First cloned baby' is son of rich Arab
ROME -- The world's first cloned baby is the son of a rich Arab, according to claims made by Severino Antinori, an Italian fertility specialist. ... the pregnancy is real and that he has a "limitless supply of money" for his experiments. ...Dr. Antonori has also dismissed concerns about malformations, claiming that it was a "certainty" that the problems seen in other cloned animals did not occur in human beings, Mr Calzolari said. All the embryos implanted were examined first, reducing "almost to nothing" the risk of malformations.

Sunday Mar 31, 2002 bbc
The rabbit clones appeared normal and healthy

Rabbits join the cloning club Rabbits are the latest animals to be cloned.
French scientists from the country's Agronomy Research Institute (INRA) report the creation of the genetically identical animals in the journal Nature Biotechnology.

Monday Mar 4, 2002 cbc
STEM CELL GUIDELINES 'STRIKE A DELICATE BALANCE' [Version en français]
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research has officially unveiled its guidelines on stem cell research, and they include a ban on public funding that could lead to cloning, as well as a ban on creating embryos simply for research purposes. see also STEMCELL-Notes

Thursday Feb 28, 2002 bbc
UK Lords back cloning research [Version en français]
A House of Lords select committee says UK scientists can create human embryo clones for research under strict guidelines. Scientists in the UK have been given the go-ahead to create human embryo clones under strictly controlled conditions.

Thursday Feb 28, 2002 cnn
Cloning progresses, debate stalls [Version en français]
A promising technology makes odd political bedfellows .."I believe strongly that it would be a disaster to ban this kind of valuable research," Feinstein said. [so DTN]

by Glenn McCoy
Nov 28 by Glenn McCoy Copyright © 2001. All Rights Reserved. Universal Press Syndicate

Friday Feb 22, 2002 cbc
Embryo ruling Q&A: Therapeutic cloning - what next? [Version en français]
What next for therapeutic cloning?

February 17, 2002 nytimes
Attack of the Calico Clones [Version en français]
By MAUREEN DOWD The news that cats may soon start multiplying more easily than they already do was not enthusiastically received in the nation's capital.

February 17, 2002 nytimes
The World's First Cloned Kitty [Version en français]
...the publicity over cat cloning could be a blessing if it makes people more aware of the troubling issues that currently make any attempts at human cloning problematic.

Friday Feb 15, 2002 bbc
Cc: and her surrogate mother, AllieSCIENTISTS CLONE 'CARBON COPY' CAT [Version en français]
Scientists in Texas have cloned a female calico kitten, named "Cc:", believed to be the first pet successfully cloned.

Friday Feb 15, 2002 bbc
Cloning: This is CopyCat: the first cat cloneClone warning [Version en français]
"The cloning of cats interferes with nature and raises serious questions concerning whether a pet can ever be truly replaced "

Monday Feb 11, 2002 bbc
Cloning: An imprecise technology with a low success rateClone warning [Version en français]
Study finds some cloned animals die young [some mouse clones died young]

January 18, 2002 nytimes
Bush's Advisers on Ethics Discuss Human Cloning [Version en français]
President Bush's newly appointed Council on Bioethics met for the first time and plunged into the thorny issue of human cloning.

January 18, 2002 bbc
UK Court approves cloning challenge [Version en français]
The Court of Appeal allows a government challenge to a High Court decision that wrecked legislation designed to regulate cloning. ...Government lawyers went before the Appeal Court on Wednesday to argue that the creation of embryos using the technique that made the sheep clone Dolly could be controlled under the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act.
Allowing the appeal, the Master of the Rolls Lord Phillips, sitting with two other judges, said: "I hold that an organism which is CNR (cloning) falls within the definition of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act."

Jan 5, 2002 Jeff J. Mitchell, Reuters Dolly the sheep, the world's first clone of an adult animal, has contracted arthritis in her left hind leg at the hip and the knee, reigniting the controversy over cloning.
Arthritis slows Dolly and future of cloning
fp [Version en français]

January 5, 2002 Arthritis slows Dolly and future of cloning 'We are very disappointed' Dan Rowe National Post, with files from news servicesJeff J. Mitchell, Reuters Dolly the sheep, the world's first clone of an adult animal, has contracted arthritis in her left hind leg at the hip and the knee, reigniting the co ...

Thursday Jan 3, 2002 Protesters banged pots and pans BBC
Cloned sheep Dolly has arthritis
bbc [Version en français]
Concerns are raised that the cloning process may cause genetic defects after Dolly, the first sheep to be cloned, develops arthritis.

Friday, January 04, 2002Prospects of using pig organs for human transplants raises cautionary questions bbc [Version en français]
As science moves closer to using pig organs for human transplants, some experts caution that the technique could transfer deadly swine viruses. Ethicists question the whole idea of using animals to make spare parts for people.

Thursday Jan 3, 2002 Pig cloning race hots up bbc [Version en français]
A second team of scientists produces a litter of cloned pigs with organs designed for human transplants.

2001

Tuesday, 18 December, 2001
Storm in a test tube economist[Version en français]
The first human embryo was cloned by a previously obscure Massachusetts firm called Advanced Cell Technology, which hoped to derive stem cells from it (the embryo did not survive long enough). The breakthrough was met with calls to ban reproductive cloning. After much soul-searching, Mr Bush did allow public money for other forms of stem-cell research.

Saturday, December 08, 2001
Montreal professor clones three calves ap [Version en français]
A veterinary doctor at the University of Montreal has cloned three healthy calves using a technique that's much cheaper than current methods. Dr. Lawrence Smith says the benefits of his finding range from increasing the production of milk in cows to saving species on the verge of extinction.

Tuesday Dec 4, 2001
Senate Declines to Take Up Proposed Cloning Moratorium ap [Version en français]
Despite entreaties from President Bush to ban any type of cloning, either for reproduction or research, the Senate today refused to take up a Republican measure to impose a six-month moratorium on the technology.

Wednesday Nov 28, 2001
Senate Wants to Hear More About Cloning [Version en français]
An effort to ban all human cloning failed to advance in the Senate as opponents of a ban said more time was needed to ensure the continuation of research.

Thursday, 16 August, 2001 Should human cloning be allowed? bbc [Version en français]
A group of doctors has said they are ready to go ahead with the cloning of human beings within the next few months. video56k baud

12/Aug/2001 Federal Tory leader Joe Clark CALLS FOR CANADIAN BAN ON HUMAN CLONING
Federal Tory leader Joe Clark says there's an "urgent need" for Canada to pass legislation that would make cloning a human being illegal.
Clark says if the United States bans human cloning, scientists will try to do their work in other countries such as Canada. [so what?]

9/Aug/2001 22:10 A step too far By: The Gazette
As a trio of more or less odd characters announced this week that they will proceed with the first human cloning, Canada's response should be to make its proposed anti-cloning legislation a priority when Parliament reconvenes for the fall session.
Although a Canadian ban against human cloning will not prevent the production of genetic replicas of humans anywhere else in the world, it will serve to prevent it here. It also will be one more voice of condemnation against an experiment that millions of people around the world find morally and ethically repugnant and that scientists warn would inevitably lead to babies that are deformed or die soon after birth.

August 1, 2001House Backs Ban on Human Cloning for Any Objective
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
W
ASHINGTON, July 31 — After an impassioned debate that pitted the promise of cures for disease against the horror of making babies that are genetic replicas of adults, the House of Representatives voted by a wide margin today to ban cloning, not only for reproduction but also for medical research.

The bipartisan 265-to-162 vote

Tuesday, July 31, 2001 nytimes.com?0731na
Republican-Led House Makes Human Cloning a Federal Crime
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted Tuesday evening to make it a federal crime to clone humans. The bill, which now must clear the Democratic-controlled Senate, bans the use of cloning to produce children or create embryos for medical research.

Tuesday, July 31, 2001 www.nytimes.com?0731na
Republican-Led House Makes Human Cloning a Federal Crime
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted Tuesday evening to make it a federal crime to clone humans. The bill, which now must clear the Democratic-controlled Senate, bans the use of cloning to produce children or create embryos for medical research.

Tue 7/31/01 U.S. CONGRESS CONSIDERS BAN ON HUMAN CLONING
The U.S. Congress places itself squarely in the debate over stem cell research Tuesday when it votes on a bill that would outlaw human cloning.

CBC News Online, March 2001  Dolly, the world's most famous clone

Human Cloning

Amina Ali and Owen Wood In November 2001, an American company announced it had cloned the first human embryo using the same technique that produced Dolly the Sheep back in 1997.

23/Jan/2001 Judge reads the vote BRITAIN ALLOWS CLONING OF HUMAN EMBRYOS FOR RESEARCH
The British House of Lords passed new regulations Monday night to allow medical researchers to clone human embryos.

Tuesday 5 September 2000 Margo Bio-debate clones on British decision to hold vote over use of human embryos stirs discussion among researchers and ethicists by LISA FITTERMAN and Human cloning goes too far by Richard Seed -
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