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Therapeutic Cloning Works in Mice With Parkinson's  -  25 Mar 2008
Washington Post,..."This is the first time that anyone has done this kind of cloning experiment to show the therapeutic aspect of the process in this customized way," said

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Will Allow Free Vote on Human ...  -  25 Mar 2008
LifeNews.com,The British Parliament will soon vote on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill that allows the cloning of human-animal hybrids.

Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1: Now with more cloning power!  -  25 Mar 2008
Ars Technica,By Chris Foresman | Published: March 25, 2008 - 10:14AM CT Mike Bombich, friendly developer of various helpful utilities like LoginWindow Manager and

South Bay Police: Thief Cloning ATM Cards  -  25 Mar 2008
NBC 11.com,Police in one of the Bay Area's most crime-free cities are warning residents about someone who is cloning ATM cards. There have already been several

Sand dollars clone themselves when they sense danger  -  25 Mar 2008
Practical Fishkeeping,Cloning occurred in all treatments containing fish mucus and the buds detached to form larvae smaller than un-cloned larvae. It is thought that by forming

Lawmakers approve restrictions on stem cell research  -  25 Mar 2008
Beatrice Daily Sun,...of state money or facilities for creating or destroying embryos for stem cell research using a technique commonly referred to as therapeutic cloning.

Scientists Excited Bush Stem Cell Research Policy May Change After ...  -  25 Mar 2008
LifeNews.com,But Dorinda Bordlee, the vice-president of the Bioethics Defense Fund, tells LifeNews.com the glee of cloning scientists may be premature.

Fake N95 Looks The Part But Does Almost Nothing  -  25 Mar 2008
Wired BlogsBefore detailing the specifications, allow me to quote from the publicity: STRAIGHT FROM THE CLONING GODS OF CHINA! [...] A CLONE THAT IS TRULY WORTHY TO BE

GuadalÃ?x De La Sierra Journal For a Prize Bull, Next Big Test Is ...  -  25 Mar 2008
New York Times,ViaGen, a cloning and genomics company based in Austin, Tex., will take cells from the aging bull next month in the hope of producing a double.

Owners be careful, your car number can be cloned!  -  25 Mar 2008
Newindpress,As apart from stealing cars, the thieves have started cloning the number plates and using them in stolen cars. If technology falls into the hands of a wrong

If pigs could fly, we'd all cry fowl  -  25 Mar 2008
Toronto Star,The solution appears to be in cloning. By cloning and recloning pigs, the scientists have so far produced a pig that smells like Air Wick.

Human-Animal Synthetic Organisms: Asymmetric Threats  -  25 Mar 2008
mi2g,Scientists are facing difficulty getting volunteers to donate human donor eggs for cell based research and therapeutic cloning as egg donation is a

Antievolution legislation in Louisiana  -  25 Mar 2008
National Center for Science Education,Contending that "the teaching of some scientific subjects, such as biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning,

J.Lo, Marc prove that celeb cloning works  -  Mar 20, 2008
Los Angeles Times,Enough about In vitro! My theory is that Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez secretly cloned themselves. I checked out the People.com photos, and it sure is

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: whatever happened to the ...  -  Mar 23, 2008
Times Online,I have some memory of those debates in the House of Lords, in which there was broad agreement that cloning of an animal-human cell would be intolerable.

Scotland Catholic Cardinal Plans to Criticize Gordon Brown on ...  -  Mar 21, 2008
LifeNews.com,Brown will allow Catholic and pro-life MPs to abstain but not vote against the cloning bill. Members of the Conservative Party will have a conscience vote

Sand Dollar Larvae Use Cloning To 'Make Change,' Confound Predators  -  Mar 13, 2008
Science Daily (press release)In each case, the cloning process resulted in a small new larva and the original larva substantially smaller than it had been. The larvae responded to the

Cloning the barbarians  -  Mar 15, 2008
Sunday Herald,ROLAND EMMERICH doesn't think small. He introduced the Martian-wrought destruction of America in Independence Day, brought Godzilla to Manhattan,

Dr Batra's Clinic to Promote Hair Cloning in India  -  Mar 19, 2008
Express Healthcare Management,..."The process of hair cloning will bring an answer for hair growth to millions if balding people across the world, particularly women, who have no effective

Issues with Missouri ballot summary language  -  Mar 24, 2008
The Rolla Daily News,Judge Joyce found that the Secretary of Stateâ€™s 73-word summary of the 163-word summary of the Missouri Cures Without Cloning Initiative was â€œinsufficicent

LETTER: Alumni should make U of M accountable on cloning  -  Mar 19, 2008
Spring Grove Herald,According to this law, human cloning would seem illegal, yet the facilities at our University of Minnesota have continued human cloning research.

When the Going Gets Tough, the Wimpy Get Cloning  -  Mar 13, 2008
Wired NewsBy Brandon Keim March 13, 2008 | 1:00:00 PMCategories: Animals When predators are near, animals respond in a variety of ways. They puff themselves up,

Bullfighting Breeders Turn to Cloning  -  Mar 5, 2008
The Associated PressFernandez is so bullish on cloning he envisions a future in which an afternoon at the arena â€” usually three matadors taking on two bulls each â€” might

Ban the cloning of our farm animals  -  Mar 3, 2008
ic Wales,This is why I have supported calls to the European Commission for a moratorium on cloning animals for food production. The Conservatives in the European

Calves withdrawn over cloning row  -  Mar 5, 2008
BBC News,Peter Stevenson, chief policy adviser for CIWF, said: "The sale of the offspring of a cloned cow will bring cloning out of the laboratory and on to the farm

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Faces More Backlash on Human ...  -  Mar 17, 2008
LifeNews.com,The Daily record newspaper said one MP, which it did not name, indicated he had received 1000 letters from people opposed to the cloning bill and asking him

Toshiba sued for cloning Fujitsu's RakuRaku handset  -  Mar 17, 2008
engadget,...to crank out clones of other popular wares, but apparently, things aren't brushed off as easily when the cloning gets done by a mega-corp like Toshiba.

'Cloning' comes to trees in new preservation push  -  Feb 27, 2008
Christian Science Monitor,The cloning of the 25 trees, on the other hand, represented the preservation of a specific cultural history. "Trees aren't like buildings, which you can

Motorists hit by card cloning scam  -  Mar 1, 2008
The Press AssociationPolice investigating a bank card cloning scam at a petrol station found a small, drilled hole in the ceiling above a chip-and-pin machine.

Cloning in the Mahabharata  -  Mar 15, 2008
Organiser,Cloning depends completely on the principle of stem cell. Human embryo is made up of only three cells. It is from these cells only that the whole body is

Equifax warns of the risks of credit card cloning as APACS reveals ...  -  Mar 13, 2008
Creditman,...â€œWith ID fraud as a result of card cloning taking hundreds of hours to rectify, clearly the best advice is to ultra cautious with credit cards when abroad.

Cloned animals still a missing link in the US food chain  -  Mar 18, 2008
Kansas City Star,Consumer groups fear agriculture is lurching into cloning without the necessary caution. The variation among clones reveals a level of hubris in laboratory

Ohio House Holds Hearing on Human Cloning Ban, Pro-Life Groups ...  -  Mar 11, 2008
LifeNews.com,Under the legislation, anyone who engaged in research-based or reproductive human cloning would be guilty of a misdemeanor and subjected to two years in

Cloning, stem cell research to be discussed at PJC  -  Mar 11, 2008
PensacolaNewsJournal.com,Cloning, stem cell research and other genetic issues will be among the topics discussed by a bioethics panel at Pensacola Junior College.

Call for ban on animal cloning  -  Mar 10, 2008
Huddersfield Examiner,I RECENTLY signed a motion calling for the European Commission to submit proposals prohibiting the cloning of animals for food supply, their farming and

Oyster card cloning fears  -  Mar 14, 2008
This is London,Researchers claim to have broken the electronic security used in the Oyster card and warned the way could be opened for them to be "cloned" using home

Send in the clones â€” with two veg on the side  -  Mar 15, 2008
The Times,Although both human and animal cloning is legislated in South Africa, there is no legislation preventing the sale of food products from cloned animals.

Catholic Church Says Abortion, Cloning, Embryo Destruction are ...  -  Mar 10, 2008
LifeNews.com,Abortion and the tampering with genetics in "morally dubious" experiments such as embryonic stem cell research or human cloning and "bioethical" violations

Cash machine customers hit by fraudsters  -  Mar 21, 2008
Scotsman,The same machine was also fitted with card cloning technology by a criminal gang in June 2006. On that occasion, a tiny camera aimed at the keypad recorded

Sand dollar, clone thyself!  -  Mar 21, 2008
Why FilesCloning is a common reproductive theme in plants and some animals and their larvae. Benefits, scientists think, might include a reproductive edge,

British Labour Govt Will Let Pro-Life MPs Abstain on Human Cloning ...  -  Mar 7, 2008
LifeNews.com,Labour Party leaders have relented and will let pro-life Catholic members of the caucus abstain on a vote on a bill that would promote human cloning.

Public Theater production raises cloning issues  -  Mar 5, 2008
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,..."It's not principally a discussion of the ethics of cloning. You are perfectly free to go with that. But it uses cloning as a jumping-off place to discuss,

Cloning dinosaurs would usher in an era of pure awesomeness  -  Mar 5, 2008
The Gateway Online,I went straight to the top authority on dinosaur cloning (whoever came up first on Google) and then watched Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III,

Probing Question: Is cloned meat safe to eat?  -  Mar 20, 2008
PhysOrg.com,Unlike genetic engineering, which changes the DNA make-up of an animal, cloning produces a genetic replica of the original, Mills explained.

Judge rewrites cloning ban amendment language  -  Feb 28, 2008
The Catholic Key,Proponents of the cloning ban, however, said they expect the appeals court to act quickly in their favor, which will allow an army of volunteers statewide

Seeing Red Over Bid to Clone a Bull  -  Mar 15, 2008
Washington Post,Animal rights advocates and scientists say that cloning is still in its infancy, with a low rate of success that results in an unacceptable number of

British Govt Sees Catholic Liberal MPs Opposing Pro-Cloning Embryo ...  -  Mar 6, 2008
LifeNews.com,The measure would promote the kind of cloning practices Catholics oppose and some top government officials could vote no even if the Party doesn't allow a

Bullfighting world sees double as breeders begin cloning  -  Mar 4, 2008
News 8 Austin,By: AP GUADALIX DE LA SIERRA, Spain -- An Austin-based cloning company has been hired to clone two fighting bulls, one in Spain, the other in Mexico.

Creature clones itself to avoid becoming fish food  -  Mar 13, 2008
New Scientist (subscription),Cloning gives the larvae's genes a greater chance of survival in two ways. With two copies around one is statistically more likely to escape predation.

Dog's skin cells depart Sioux City for cloning attempt in Korea  -  Mar 1, 2008
Sioux City Journal,It has evolved to offer what it calls "advanced reproductive technologies, including in-vitro fertilization, sexed-semen, genetic preservation and cloning.

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