Cloning

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Cloning Links

• Cloning: A Special Report Ongoing reporting of cloning developments from the weekly science magazine - New Scientist. Includes Bioethics Forum.
  
  
• PPL Therapeutics The Edinburgh-based company that cloned Dolly the Sheep and Mille, Christa, Alexis, Carrel and Dotcom - the 5 cloned piglets.
  
• Clonaid Offers to clone humans.
  
• Cloning Law and Policy at UPenn Extensive bibliography on cloning law and policy; media coverage and analysis; and details of state, federal and international laws on cloning.
  
• Northwest Cloning Links Overview of the state-of-the-art in mammalian cloning, with resources to information on cloning.
  
• Five Pigs Cloned; Transplants to Humans Touted The British company that helped clone Dolly the sheep announced Tuesday that it has created the first cloned pigs, animals that eventually could be used as sources of organs needed for human transplant. [LA Times]
  
• Researchers Clone Twin Monkeys by Splitting Embryos Researchers using a technique called embryo splitting hope to grow genetically identical rhesus monkeys in the laboratory -- a breakthrough that would enable experiments such as growing new organs from stem cells to be tested on monkeys rather than mice. [Oregon Live]
  
• Clone World A look at cloning technology from all directions. [In English and Japanese]
  
• Cloning--Are Humans Next? Human cloning facts, issues, and questions, from World Book.
  
• Genomics Issues: Cloning Resources, articles and books on the science, research, applications and public policy of cloning, from a pharmaceutical industry lobbying group.
  
• Cloning In Science Fiction Citing of cloning being used in Science Fiction, and how they were portrayed. [Gene Letter]
  
• Hello Dolly! An entertaining and informative look at the science behind Dolly, from the Why Files at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  
• Cloned embryos 'could treat leukaemia' Human tissue could be cloned to help children with leukaemia, a scientist predicts. [BBC News]
  
• Dolly Scientists Clone Chickens The scientists who cloned Dolly the Sheep have now created designer chickens. [Britain]
  
• First Dolly -- Now Dotcom Scientists in Britain say they have produced the world's first cloned pigs. [CBC Canada]
  
• Clone Rights United Front Activist organization protecting the right to human cloning.
  
• Send in the Clones Using a new technique, scientists have cloned clones from clones. [Scientific American]
  
• Monkeys Copied the 'Natural' Way Researchers using a technique called embryo splitting hope to grow genetically identical rhesus monkeys in the laboratory - a breakthrough that would enable experiments such as growing new organs from stem cells to be tested on monkeys rather than mice. [ABC News]
  
• Cloning Report Coverage by the Washington Post.
  
• Genetic Engineering and Cloning Improving nature or uncorking the genie? Information and debate positions, both for and against.
  
• Scientists Produce Five Pig Clones The first pig clones are created, bringing the transplantation of animal organs into humans much closer. [BBC News]
  
• Post-Clone Consciousness Jessica Matthews looks at the realities of cloning after the dust has settled after the Dolly announcement. [Washington Post]
  
• Cloning Technology Progresses Despite Controversy A review of cloning news concerning science and public policy, three years after the cloning of Dolly. [CNN]
  
• Dolly cloning method patented The first patents for cloning have been issued to the researchers who created Dolly the sheep. [BBC News]
  
• Conceiving a Clone In-depth student project on the science and ethics of cloning. Well-presented and informative.
  
• Cloning--Slouching Towards Creation Multimedia site from Time Magazine highlights the announcement of Dolly, with the look at the procedure, ethics, and future of cloning technology.
  
• Dolly's Legacy Nuclear transfer--used to clone Dolly--may help scientists develop more potent stem-cell therapies. [Scientific American]
  
• Ethicists Query Dolly Patents The issuing of the first patents for cloning have fueled the debate over the "ownership" of important medical technologies. [BBC News]