March 2001 | Updated Jan. 2002 cbc 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 cbcbr>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.
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.
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
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 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.
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 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 Cloning 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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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 "
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.
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'
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
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 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]
February 17, 2002 nytimes Attack of the Calico Clones 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
...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 SCIENTISTS CLONE 'CARBON COPY' CAT
Scientists in Texas have cloned a female calico kitten, named "Cc:",
believed to be the first pet successfully cloned.
Friday Feb 15, 2002 bbc Clone warning
"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 Clone warning
Study finds some cloned animals die young [some mouse clones died young]
January 18, 2002 nytimes Bush's Advisers on Ethics Discuss Human Cloning
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
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."
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 Cloned sheep Dolly has arthritis bbc
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
A group of doctors has said they are ready to go ahead with the cloning of human beings within the next few months. 56k 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
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.
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.