The President’s Council on Bioethics will examine the issue of human cloning as its first immediate project, Leon R. Kass, the panel’s chairman, said Thursday at the panel’s inaugural meeting. Dr.

Members of President George W. Bush’s Council on Bioethics spoke about the moral and scientific repercussions of cloning to a crowd of about 50 people in Georgetown University Medical Center’s ...

A sharply divided presidential bioethics panel issued a report on Thursday in which a majority of the members favor a four-year moratorium on attempts to create cloned cells for medical research, ...

A presidential advisory council on bioethics began its work Thursday by examining the ethical, scientific and legal issues surrounding human cloning. The 18-member council is looking at the ...

Just weeks before the White House's commission on bioethics released its report on cloning in early July, the prospect of banning cloning in the United States seemed to die in Congress. Wait. Did I ...

UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) was founded in 1945, aiming to “build peace in the minds of men” through education, science, culture and communication ...

The President’s Council on Bioethics recommended a complete ban on human cloning for reproduction but, in a 10-7 split, only a four-year moratorium on cloning for research purposes. Conservatives are ...

Stem cell research will lead to new therapies. Mike May, "Mother Nature's Menders," in Understanding Cloning, ed. Scientific American, (New York: Warner Books, 2002), 69. National Research Council, ...

Let's play a game. Take a minute to guess the background political ideologies behind each of the quotes below dealing with the ethical implications of new biotechnologies: (1) "The technologies are ...

President Bush's Council on Bioethics released a report Thursday on reproductive biotechnologies that could finally push the U.S. government to an agreement on human-cloning legislation. The United ...

PARIS -- French President Jacques Chirac said Sunday he would lead an initiative for an international convention on bioethics to prevent abuse of cloning research. Chirac, whose country has been among ...

Let me begin by saying that I do not support human cloning. It does not feel right to me and, more important, there is a significant likelihood based on animal studies that it would result in high ...