Harvard researchers said yesterday they have asked the university's ethics boards for permission to create cloned human embryos for medical research, marking the first push to conduct such experiments ...

The cloning of human embryos by South Korean researchers has reignited debate about how to regulate human cloning. No reputable scientist wants to make artificial babies. But, there is heated ...

Stanford University announced yesterday it would create an institute to develop medical therapies from human embryonic stem cells, the promising but controversy-laden cells found inside human embryos.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Just a few years ago, Michigan State University scientist Jose Cibelli was considered the leading expert on cloning human embryos to treat and study disease. Now, there's no debate ...

It’s clone-mania again, for the second time in just a few weeks. This time, it’s fertility expert Panayiotis Zavos, founder of the private Zavos Organization in Lexington, Kentucky, claiming that he ...

A new law banning the creation of cloned people in Britain should be in force within a week or so, but opponents of cloning fear there are many potential loopholes. Also, the regulation of so-called ...

Last week, while the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit was deployed in southern Afghanistan, researchers from Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., announced that they had achieved the first ...

Stepping into a research area marked by controversy and fraud, Harvard University scientists said Tuesday they are trying to clone human embryos to create stem cells they hope can be used one day to ...