In the eleven years since my youngest children were born, twin daughters, thanks to IVF, who joined a similarly IVF-enabled sister, we've scarcely discussed their scientific beginnings.
By: Rachael Rettner, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/17/2013 08:00 AM EDT on LiveScience The news that researchers have used cloning to ma...
NEW YORK -- Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a longstanding goal that could lead to new treatments for such ill...
In no small measure inspired by BBC America's Canadian-produced tricky and fun new series Orphan Black, which centers heavily on cloning what-ifs, I came back to this simmering question (thanks, TV!) -- why not cloning?
Do we like the idea of cloning so much that we are willing to endure the same theme for the past 20-plus years? I decided to look back in history and find examples throughout the years to illustrate this point.
A bizarre species of frog that went extinct decades ago has been brought back to life. In an effort known as the Lazarus Project, scientists at th...
The headline in the Britain's Daily Mail tabloid was hard to miss: "Wanted: Adventurous Woman to Give Birth to Neanderthal Man, Harvard Professor seeks Mother for Cloned Cave Baby."
Recently, reports spread like wildfire that Harvard geneticist George Church was seeking an "adventurous female human" to be a surrogate mother to a c...
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Science often inspires science fiction writers to explore fantastic scenarios that may be just around the corner. However, sometimes, science fiction can also be an inspiration for science.
While being able to create a black hole, or recreate the Big Bang with the Hadron Collider sounds like super fun experiments, what if we're really able to create a black hole in an underground laboratory in Switzerland?
"Future pups from the past." That's what Edgar and Nina Otto, the proud owners of a cloned Labrador retriever, Lancelot Encore, have dubbed his offspr...
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The woolly mammoth may be on the comeback trail, thanks to a deal signed today between prominent Russian and South Korean scientists to collaborate on...
The fetuses created by IVF will ideally become healthy people. But the IVF industry needs federal oversight to ensure that the children produced have the maximum chance of growing up to be healthy adults.
The centrally important question under Jewish law would be: Have we produced another healthy or healthier child?
There has been a lot of buzz in the press recently about controversial genetic startup My Little Me. Recently, My Little Me reached out to ask if I'd review their products.
The number of dogs that have been cloned in the last six years is just a tiny fraction of the number of dogs that are bred and sold every day. But that's not why I won't clone my dog.
It is not too soon to ask: What form or forms will the practice of human reproductive cloning take? What purposes will it serve; what needs will it satisfy?
Whether you believe or not, most of us have thought about death, and "something" after our present life is better than a dark eternal gloom forever, sort of my present state of mind.
Cremation will soon overtake burial; it occurred to me a logical next step might be preservation of a small portion of the remains, just in case cloning someday becomes commonplace.
