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Salon.com June 18, 2002 Scott Anderson |
Playing God Bush's bioethics czar Leon Kass wants to criminalize lifesaving medical research as violating the natural order of things. Would he have opposed wiping out smallpox? |
Salon.com January 31, 2001 Theresa Pinto Sherer |
Can two men make a baby? Researchers say it's possible, but lawmakers must pave the way... |
Salon.com May 3, 1999 Dawn MacKeen |
The Clone Age Adventures in the new world of reproductive technology... |
Wired January 2001 Brian Alexander |
(You)2 Human cloning has always been frightening, seductive - and completely out of reach. Not anymore... |
Wired January 2004 Wendy Goldman Rohm |
Seven Days of Creation The inside story of a human cloning experiment |
Salon.com August 21, 2000 Lori B. Andrews |
Embryos under the knife The latest reproductive technology is just the next step on our sprint toward human cloning. |
Reason February 2005 Ronald Bailey |
The U.N. vs. Cloning In September 2004 President Bush strongly endorsed a United Nations resolution, proposed by Costa Rica, for a global treaty that would completely ban both reproductive cloning (that is, cloning to produce a baby) and therapeutic cloning. |
Salon.com May 21, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Clone free Francis Fukuyama warns that the combination of runaway biotechnology and individual freedom could lead to a social nightmare... |
Wired January 2003 Charles C. Mann |
The First Cloning Superpower Inside China's race to become the clone capital of the world. |
The Motley Fool January 3, 2007 Stephen Albainy-Jenei |
Attack of the Pod Cows The FDA has endorsed food from cloned animals. While the agency's conclusions don't exactly herald the invasion of the farm-animal snatchers, they do provide an open opportunity for companies that are well-positioned in the industry. |
Reason October 2001 Ronald Bailey |
Blastocyst Brouhaha Which human cells count as people? |
Wired October 2009 Gregg Easterbrook |
Gregg Easterbrook: Embrace Human Cloning Human clones, it is widely assumed, would be monstrous perversions of nature. Yet chances are, you already know one. They walk among us in the form of identical twins. |
Salon.com January 4, 2001 Michael Scott Moore |
"Cloning: Responsible Science or Technomadness?" A new book shows that ethical questions about replicating humans are less consequential than the procedure's threat to our biological diversity... |
Bio-IT World June 2005 Johan Bostrom |
Give a Dog a Clone The lack of products on the market is a common complaint about pioneering biotech companies, but Genetic Savings & Clone has sold five carbon-based products that purr when you stroke them. And the next offering will bark. |
BusinessWeek February 27, 2006 Catherine Arnst |
And Baby Makes...A Market "The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception" is a valuable, thought-provoking look at the baby-making business. |
Smithsonian June 2006 Amy Crawford |
Interview: Christiane Nusslein-Volhard A Nobel laureate holds forth on flies, genes and women in science. Her first book, Coming to Life, explains the genetic and cellular basis of animal development and explores the ethical implications of recent progress in genomics and biotechnology. |
Reason April 2001 Cathy Young |
Monkeying Around with the Self Why support for biotech shouldn't foreclose the debate over its moral issues... |
The Motley Fool January 4, 2005 Charly Travers |
Cloning Fluffy Pet cloners like Genetic Savings & Clone (GSC) are clearly part of a new market on the verge of breaking open, and the opportunity for the first movers in this field is quite large. While private now, biotech investors need to keep watch. |
Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Mark D. Uehling |
Flirting with Genomic Disaster A conversation with political scientist Francis Fukuyama about the prospect of ethics regulation in biotechnology. |
Wired February 2002 Brendan I. Koerner |
Embryo Police Got designs on a designer baby? Egg sharing? Intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection? Meet the citizens panel that's more than happy to make your reproductive choice for you... |
Salon.com January 3, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
A mammoth undertaking Can genetic science bring extinct species back to life? And if it can, should we let it? |
Science News September 18, 2004 |
Click and Clone The Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah has an interactive Web site for middle or high school students that teaches the basics of somatic cell cloning, the type of cloning used to create Dolly the sheep. |
Salon.com May 25, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Our shiny happy clone future Procreation without sex, smarter babies and the right to choose the sexual orientation of your kids -- it's all good, says scientist Gregory Stock... |
Wired October 2003 Wendy Goldman Rohm |
The Test-Tube Family Reunion Louise Brown turns 25. Happy Birthday, IVF. |
Science News January 13, 2007 Christen Brownlee |
Cloned Meat and Milk Are Safe, But They Won't Hit Stores Soon A Food and Drug Administration analysis concludes that food from cloned animals is safe, but the effort and expense involved in creating these animals means that products from them won't be in markets anytime soon. |
Scientific American July 2008 Sally Lehrman |
Dolly's Creator Moves Away from Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cells Like many stem cell pioneers, Ian Wilmut, the creator of Dolly the sheep, has jumped to an alternative approach. Is this the beginning of the end for embryonic cloning? |
Salon.com August 10, 2001 Scott Rosenberg |
Bush's stem-cell fumble Whatever Bush decided, embryos will continue to be destroyed -- so why not use them to save other lives? |
Scientific American March 2006 Sara Beardsley |
Down in Flames Can stem cell research recover from Woo Suk Hwang? |
Scientific American March 2007 |
The Beef with Cloned Meat For Americans, the idea of cloned meat elicits distaste even in many confirmed carnivores. Is that gut reaction justified? From a food-safety standpoint, probably not. |
Wired May 2001 |
Rants & Raves The ethical and commercial issues in human cloning depend in part on resolving its biggest biological problem - namely, safety... America's ideologically driven fear of "state interference" has allowed its corporations to be far more intrusive and abusive than any European government... |
BusinessWeek July 18, 2005 |
Research and "False Expectations" While Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk is eager to see practical applications of his work, he warns that optimism needs to be qualified by reality. |
Wired March 2000 Charles Graeber |
How Much Is That Doggy In The Vitro? Move over, Dolly. Here comes Fido forever - dog cloning, and the business potential due to pet owners outliving their pets. |
Fast Company March 2008 Elizabeth Svoboda |
Eureka? Alan Trounson, the new president of California's stem-cell agency, talks about the science, the opposition, and his qualms about working with embryos. |
BusinessWeek March 26, 2007 Pallavi Gogoi |
Little Dogies, Big Controversy Beef from Scott Simplot's cloned cattle could soon be on the menu if the FDA say O.K. |
Salon.com January 9, 2003 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Fun with pig clones Every porker is different, even if it shares the same genes with a litter of siblings. So forget about ordering a copy of your favorite faithful companion. |
Bio-IT World April 16, 2004 Kevin Davies |
A Black Eye for Bioethics Elizabeth Blackburn, an internationally renowned cell biologist, received a surprise phone call from the White House, informing her that her services on the President's Council on Bioethics would no longer be required. |
IndustryWeek May 1, 2002 Doug Bartholomew |
Man In The Mirror Cloning could tell us something about ourselves, our business ethics... |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Bettering Ourselves Through Biotech: Greater Productivity, Sharper Memories, Hair Feathers Beefing up muscle without steroids or hormones; rejuvenating damaged skin and heart tissue; ratcheting up memory function. Therapies that promise to enhance human abilities are nearing the marketplace. Funding, however, is hard to come by these days. |
AskMen.com |
Cloning Expert Jailed A South Korean stem cell scientist once hailed as a hero for bringing hope to people with incurable diseases and creating the world's first cloned dog was convicted Monday on criminal charges related to faked research, but avoided jail. |
Inc. May 15, 2000 Cathy Welsh-Payne |
Teach Your Children Well Report on eighth-grade students' discussion of what the world would be like when they grew up. |
Food Processing February 2008 |
Just Say No to Clones Should the food industry should fund a forum to assess the advisability of clones in the food supply? The evidence presented here says "yes." |
Reason December 2008 Ronald Bailey |
Speculation, Innovation, Regulation In 1968 reason magazine predicted, technologically speaking, what life would be like today. How accurate were they? |
Reason October 2008 Greg Beato |
Man's Best Friend Forever Cloning dogs for love and profit |
Scientific American November 2007 |
Reviews Few books could present more implacably opposed views, and few could raise more provocative questions: The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering by Michael J. Sandel... Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People by John Harris... |