This happened last summer when the House of Representatives passed legislation that bans all applications of human cloning -- both research and reproductive -- with stiff penalties for violators.
LONDON, England -- A ban on human cloning has been pledged by the British government to allay public fears.
One, sponsored by Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Florida, bans human cloning in all cases.
After days on the Internet and hours reaching out to reconstructive specialists in the United States, Pippi's mother discovered a company in Boston called Genzyme whose specialty is growing layers of human skin by cloning a 2-square-centimeter sample from a patient.
In exchange, Brownback backed off amendments that would have banned human cloning and prohibited creating animal-human hybrid embryos.
But making embryos for reproduction would require more advanced, complex techniques than were used in the new study -- and serious scientists do not endorse human cloning for reproduction.
President Thomas Okarma, speaking on behalf of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, underscored the numerous benefits of human cloning research and expressed opposition to the all-out ban.
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.
The basic techniques of human embryo creation that Dr. Edwards pioneered form the technical foundation of in vitro fertilization, human cloning techniques, genetic screening of human embryos and embryonic-stem-cell research.
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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.
Lovell-Badge added that concerns that embryonic research might lead to reproductive human cloning were unfounded.
Frist's principles include banning human cloning and allowing taxpayer dollars for research only on embryos created for in-vitro fertilization and not from abortions.
The bill banning human cloning now goes to the Senate, where Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, indicated Tuesday that he would support it.
Dolly the sheep -- the first cloned animal -- was created over 10 years ago, and the only previous claim of human embryo cloning by South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang in 2004, was discredited.
Rep. Peter Deutsch, D-Florida, a co-sponsor of the Greenwood measure, said he agreed with the idea that human cloning should be banned, but said some cloning practices should be allowed for the sake of scientific research.
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- The House of Lords has backed new government rules to allow limited cloning of human embryos, though religious leaders from across the spectrum urged them to oppose the measures.
During the debate public health minister Yvette Cooper made an impassioned plea for scientists to be given the go-ahead for stem cell research, denying it was a "slippery slope" to human cloning.
But right-to-life groups and religious leaders see it as the first step down a slippery slope to full human cloning.
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