Also, at least two bills have been introduced in Congress to ban human cloning research.
Lovell-Badge added that concerns that embryonic research might lead to reproductive human cloning were unfounded.
In exchange, Brownback backed off amendments that would have banned human cloning and prohibited creating animal-human hybrid embryos.
Britain would become the first country in the world to ban human cloning, according to London's Independent newspaper.
This area of research remains somewhat controversial in medicine, because critics say this could lead to human cloning.
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.
But right-to-life groups and religious leaders see it as the first step down a slippery slope to full human cloning.
In this session, the U.N. will consider a resolution sponsored by Costa Rica calling for a comprehensive ban on human cloning.
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.
That is likely to spook lawmakers who already voted in the House of Representatives to make all human cloning, including the therapeutic kind, illegal.
Bishop Elio Sgreccia, head of the John Paul II Institute for Bioethics at Rome's Gemelli hospital, said human cloning raised profoundly disturbing ethical issues.
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.
The FDA visit was made about two weeks after Boisselier argued before Congress that her company should be allowed to pursue human cloning, she said.
The Brazilian soaps, however, are more sophisticated, with different stories, like human cloning or love between Muslims and Christians and more of the social realism.
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.
Last year, Britain proposed allowing human cells to be cloned for research purposes while other European countries, including Spain and France have banned human cloning altogether.
Without such safeguards in place, there is no reason to assume that human cloning will not repeat the messy trial and error of current animal research.
Ordinary people know perfectly well why human cloning is wrong, and that's why governments around the world, including all developed nations except the USA have banned it.
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With human cloning technology just around the corner and enough frozen sperm in the world to already populate many generations, perhaps we should perform a cost-benefit analysis.
Although human cloning is currently banned by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, Milburn says its policy could be overturned at any time and a licence issued.
Investigators from the FDA arrived at Clonaid's lab in the spring, a few weeks after Boisselier testified before Congress that human cloning could be done safely, she said.
It also raised concerns: The House of Representatives held a second hearing this month to try to determine whether there should be a federal ban on human cloning.
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.
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.
"The administration is strongly opposed to any legislation that would prohibit human cloning for reproductive purposes but permit the creation of cloned embryos for research, " the policy statement said.
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.
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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That scandal, as well as ethical concerns about the dangers of encouraging work that could lead to human cloning, dried up interest in getting the process to work with human cells.
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