The Latest News on Cloning Research

• The New Scientist Special Report: Cloning and Stem Cells
• The Washington Post's coverage on cloning

U.S. Policies and Bioethics Committees

• Policy Brief: Human Cloning, from the American Association for the Advancement of Science with other links related to the U.S. government. June, 2002.

• President Clinton

  • National Bioethics Advisory Commission, 1995
  • Cloning Prohibition Act of 1997

• President Bush

  • President's Council on Bioethics, 2001
  • Remarks by the President on Human Cloning Legislation, by George W. Bush, April 10, 2002.
• The American Journal of Bioethics published by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania

Human Cloning

• Congressional Hearing for "Issues Raised by Human Cloning Research." March, 2001.
• The First Human Cloned Embryo from Scientific American. November, 2001.
• Human Embryonic Cloning and Stem Cells in the Spotlight, especially What are some different types of stem cells? and Creating Stem Cells for Research
• Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning from the National Academies Press, 2002.
• The Reproductive Cloning Network collection of updates on human cloning
• The Human Genome Project Cloning Fact Sheet

Cloning Animals

• Cloning Noah's Ark from Scientific American. November, 2000.
• Animal Cloning at Advanced Cell Technology, includes endangered species cloning
• The story behind CC, the cloned cat from Genetic Savings and Clone

Recent Clone Zone (timeline) resources available on the Web

• 1996: Dolly
• 1997: Monkeys
• 1997: Polly

Risks of Cloning

• Multiple Gene Defects Found in Clones
• Cloned Mice Die Young
• Cloned cows turn back the cellular clock (PDF)
• Laying hold on eternal life? (PDF)
• Telomeres and Telomerase: Solving the End-Replication Problem
• Telomerase Research: Shay/ Wright Laboratory (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
• Silence of the Clones

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