Human Cloning

9 Dec 2006

Australia this week passed a bill legalising human embryo cloning, arguing that it throws open the door to potential new cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Do you support such...

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The last human clone

3 Dec 2002

SCMP, November 28, 2002

Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori has created the most difficult of ethical dilemmas. Should the 33-week-old cloned foetus, that he claims a woman he...

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Debate that won't go away

12 Aug 2001

The recent debate surrounding the prospect of cloning a human being is a particularly stark illustration of the increasingly difficult ethical decisions science is forcing us to confront.

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Cloning has many drawbacks

27 Jun 2000

Scientists are always working hard to come up with innovative ideas and new inventions to meet our needs.

Genetically modified food products are made to meet the ever growing demand...

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Giving birth to moral debate

17 May 1998

THE parents of a terminally ill child are told that only a bone marrow transplant can save its life. With no other donor available, the parents attempt to clone a human being from the cells of the...

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Deconstructing Dolly the sheep

17 Jan 1998

Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead by Gina Kolata, William Morrow, $260 Among the interminable end-of-1997 reviews one story, along with those of Diana, the Pattens and the handover,...

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Opinion

The last straw for Terry Wong?

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Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

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Clone me, says film director

A Thai film director has demanded the right to be cloned.

After the success of scientists in Scotland in cloning a sheep they called Dolly, Kamthorn Thapkhanlai said there was no...

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Embryo cloning possible in HK

A CALL for urgent measures to regulate human cloning is unlikely to be heeded, even though a senior government official has admitted embryos could be duplicated in Hong Kong.

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