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OSLO (Reuters) - The world faces a stark choice between banning cloning of humans or preparing ways to protect them from potential abuse or discrimination, a U.N. study said on Sunday. Experts at the ...

With all the work to do, people to see, traffic jams to get stuck in, we all sometimes wish we could be in two places at once. We’ve already cloned sheep, cows, chickens, even monkeys. What if we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A startup has been pitching "brainless clones" of the human body that aging or ill individuals could one day transplant their ...

The news that U.S. scientists have successfully cloned a human embryo seems almost certain to rekindle a political fight that has raged, on and off, since the announcement of the creation of Dolly the ...

The Alabama House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved a bill to outlaw human cloning. The bill, by Rep. Phillip Rigsby, R-Huntsville, would make it a Class C felony to clone, attempt to clone, ...

For some time, scientists have been able to craft precise genetic copies of many creatures. Whether they are animals, or single cells, they are similarly referred to as clones. For various technical ...

WASHINGTON -- The announcement by a U.S. company that it has cloned a human embryo for the first time has set off a heated debate on the ethics of the research, with the company on Monday staunchly ...