The first approach was to develop somatic-cell hybrid (and later radiation hybrid) panels that contained the human ... DNA (hundreds of kilobases) as YACs transformed the entire field of gene cloning.

Whereas human cloning has been debated by politicians ... to create government bodies to directly regulate reproductive and genetic technologies against the backdrop of abortion politics.

The cloning of human beings, many concluded ... infertility treatments to have children or allowing a parent bearing a gene for a debilitating disease such as Huntington's chorea to avoid passing ...

The cloning of embryos for generating stem cells ... If you look closely at the tip of the needle, you can just make out the genetic material being drawn out. We have released the egg cell's ...

A little-noticed change to South Africa's national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the ...

Narrator: To even research human cloning, scientists would need to ethically ... since they share the patient's DNA, would be less likely to be rejected. But this use case is still in the research ...

When New Yorker John Mendola lost his beloved Shih Apso, Princess, who he rescued from a Long Island police station, he made ...

In 1979, the black-footed ferret was believed to be extinct. More than four decades later, scientists in the US have not only ...

Researchers hope unlocking the secrets of their specialised survival mechanisms will pave the way to advances in human ...

"Yet, you can make the same argument with human children ... was already prepared - he has some of her genetic material stored for potential future cloning.