Stem Cell Research August 9th was a big day for our country and what the future will hold for stem cell research. "The U.S. conducts more than 90% of the world's biomedical research, with this decision to not fund all stem cell research we will most likely fall behind the world in this ...

HUMAN CLONING What is life exactly? "Well life is the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living". Many have questioned whether human cloning is right or wrong. What is human cloning and stem cells? By taking a nucleus or DNA from a cell like ...

Imagine that you go to your doctor's office for a routine check-up. A few weeks later, he calls you to his office to inform you that you have been diagnosed with a rare, usually fatal type of cancer. As he describes your options for treatment, he tells you that your best hope lies in a therapy ...

Experimental Treatments for Humans Scientists are always trying to find new ways to help cure humans of problems like cancer, or disease. Experiments are the most common way to try and find if a new treatment works. Many times new treatments are tested on animals before humans. After these are...

International Events Over the summer months of the year two thousand and one something extraordinary happened. An event that will have such an impact to change lives forever. No soul on earth thought that curing diseases such as Alzheimer and Parkinson's would ever be possible, until to...

Scientists have been injecting cells into the spinal cords of monkeys who have Lou Gehrig's- like disease. The point of this new experiment is to find out if stem cells in human embryos and fetuses can regrow healthy neutrons. If successful, it may be a way to treat Lou Gehrig's in humans...

Should Embryo Stem Cell Research Be Banned? This is one of the most controversial questions posed in the last century. The issue is simple. Should the federal government fund embryo stem cell research? The answer is extremely complex. At the heart of this controversy, is whether or not, i...

Cloning--Our Next Generation Some people believe that biologists are cloning human embryos only to see how far they can go, but in actuality, there are many legitimate reasons for investing cloning. Embryologists believe that research into cloning could help improve the life of future generations...

A process that has been researched and debated for decades, and for a while the subject of science fiction novels, magazines, and television shows, is today a practical reality. News of successful cloning of an adult sheep generated an outpouring of ethical concerns in 1997. These concerns were...

Cloning A clone is a cell, group of cells, or organism that is descended from and genetically identical to a single ancestor. Or to look at in another view, a clone is a copy, an organism descended asexually form a single ancestor. There are different types of cloning however, and cloning tec...

The Linacre Center for Healthcare Ethics submitted a quite lengthy article, Stem Cell Research to the House of Lords Select Committee, in June of 2001. This article addressed the issue of human embryo cloning. The specific objective of this paper is to clarify and summarize the controversial debate ...

Early in 1997, Scottish scientist Dr. Ian Wilmot revealed to the world that he had successfully cloned an entire adult sheep. Dolly was the young clone's given name. With this announcement, the world made a collective gasp at the realization that no longer was cloning a "pipe dream" or an ...

Is This Really the Future of Transplants?? After a baby is conceived and has made it through the fallopian tube it becomes an outer shell of cells with an attached inner group of cells. When this has happened it has reached the blastocyst stage. In this stage the outer cells nourish and provide pro...

Cloning A research company has reported that it has cloned the first human embryo. Its goal was to produce genetically matched replacement calls to help patients with a wide variety of diseases. The company, Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) of Worcester, Massachusetts claims that its intention...

The Cost of Cloning in Brave New World Imagine living in a world where your child grows up to look and act like you. Human cloning can make that a reality. Cloning is the process of creating a genetic duplicate of an individual. February of 1997 marked the birth of Dolly, a sheep cloned by Ian...

Let's Make the World a No-Clone Zone "Let's Make the World a No-Clone Zone" is a very straightforward and powerful article which lists many reasons why anything and everything about cloning should be illegal. In her article Therese M. Lysaught acknowledges there is plenty of f...

?I. Introduction Sexual propagation involves the union of the pollen (male) with the egg (female) to produce a seed. The seed is made up of three parts: the outer seed coat, which protects the seed; the endosperm, which is a food reserve; and the embryo, which is the young plant itself. When a see...

Since our genes dictate to a large extent what we look like, how we behave and what we can and cannot do, having identical genes, as identical twins do, ensures something more than mere similarity. Novelists and filmmakers have not been slow to exploit the imagery afforded by cloning. Limitles...

Cloning humans is banned in 23 countries. But scientists and researchers are pushing the technology because they believe that human cloning can bring the future with many benefits. In the United States, 4 states have banned human cloning and the law doesn't allow any government funding for...