So this makes cloning, human therapeutic cloning, a feasible reality for everybody.

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Basel, Switzerland-based Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) convened an ethics board that likewise decided human therapeutic cloning would be unethical.

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That is likely to spook lawmakers who already voted in the House of Representatives to make all human cloning, including the therapeutic kind, illegal.

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The Vatican has over recent decades issued blanket condemnations of artificial methods of birth control, in-vitro fertilization, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, and human embryonic stem cell research.

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In March the United Nations abandoned its bid to impose a blanket ban on human cloning because of opposition from countries that support embryonic research for therapeutic purposes.

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"Therapeutic cloning has tremendous, tremendous healing potential, but we have to open so many doors before human trials, " lead researcher Hwang Woo-suk of Seoul National University said in a telephone interview.

CNN: Cloning success hailed, feared