AUSTIN -- A debate over when life begins for a clone is brewing in the background of a bill passed Thursday by the Texas Senate to ban the cloning of human beings. Scientists have said the cloning ...

Reproductive Cloning is the process of making a full living copy of an organism. Reproductive cloning of animals transplants nuclei from body cells into eggs that have had their nucleus removed. That ...

Scientists say they’ll go ahead anyway. Lawmakers, seeking to rein in the scientific appetite for human experimentation, are attempting to ban human cloning. On July 31, the House approved a bill, 265 ...

For some time, scientists have been able to craft precise genetic copies of many creatures. Whether they are animals, or single cells, they are similarly referred to as clones. For various technical ...

Scientists in Oregon have achieved something that many thought might be impossible. They said Wednesday that they have cloned human embryos and then harvested the embryo's stem cells. The discovery, ...

A chemist who said last week her company would soon produce the first human clone _ an infant girl genetically identical to her 30-year-old mother _ prepared an announcement on the effort even as ...

A newly discovered quirk of primate cell biology suggests that monkeys – and humans – are impossible to clone from adult cells using current techniques. The finding directly contradicts claims by ...

Back when it was no more than a cheesy science-fiction plot device, human cloning seemed like something that would eventually be revealed to a horrified world full-blown and fully grown–a monstrous ...