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Cloning Archive:
News from 2002

CLONING NEWS ARCHIVE
2001

December 26
- Hearts, Minds Clash in Debate About Cloning (Sheboygan Press)

December 21
- Russia's Lower House Gives Initial Approval to Five-Year Moratorium on Human Cloning (AP)
- University's Attempt to Clone a Cow Ends With Wrong Sex (Standard-Examiner)

December 20
- Scientist Warns European Commission on Human Cloning (BBC)
- Scottish Executive to Resist English Court on Cloning (The Herald)

December 18
- Use of Cloning to Tailor Treatment Has Big Hurdles, Including Cost (New York Times)
- A Thick Line Between  Theory and Therapy, As Shown With Mice (New York Times)
- In Tiny Cells, Glimpses of Body's Master Plan (New York Times)

- Controversy Over Cloning Reignites in Congress (New York Times)
- Latest Embryonic Cloning Action Seen As a Baby Step (American Medical News)

December 17
- Loophole May Allow Human Cloning in Scotland (The Herald)
- Italian Doctor Who Courts Cloning Controversy (The Herald)

December 14
- Human Cloning May Be Impossible and Therapeutic Stem Cell Cloning May Be Unnecessary (Cordis)

December 13
- Cloned Monkey Embryos Are a "Gallery of Horrors" (New Scientist) (Ananova)
- Drugs to Spur New Cells, and Without the Politics (New York Times)
- U.N. to Set up Study Group Backing Law Against Human Cloning (Bioresearch)
- Canada: Committee Wants Ban on Human Cloning, Rent-a-Womb Contracts, Gene Patents (CBC) (The Star)
- Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplants Not Rejected (BBC)
- UK: Scientists Should Be Banned From Cloning: Report (Globe and Mail)

December 11
- Boston Univ Bioethicist Denounces ACT’s Cloning Project (Mass High Tech)
- In Cloning, Failure Far Exceeds Success (New York Times)
- China Gives Green Light to 'Therapeutic' Cloning (SciDev)

December 10
- 'Parthenotes' Expand the Debate on Stem Cells (Washington Post)
- That Scientific Breakthrough Thing (New York Times)

December 6
- New Hampshire: House Faces Bills on Cloning (Telegraph)

December 5
- West, President of ACT, Seeks Cloning Approval (New York Times) (USA Today) (St Petersburg Times) (Des Moines Register)
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Swedish Council Calls for Human Embryo Cloning (Nando Times)
- UK: Ban on Cloning to Produce Babies Approved By Queen (AP) (CNN)
- Japan OKs Mixed Human-Animal Clones (News Max)

December 4
- Senate Declines to Take Up Proposed Cloning Moratorium (New York Times) (Nando Times) (Washington Post)

December 3
- Environmentalists Stand with Conservatives on Cloning (CNSNews)

November 30
- UK: Human Reproductive Cloning Bill Cleared House of Commons (Sky News) (BBC)

November 29
- House Pressuring Senate to Take up Cloning Ban (CNSNews)
- Bush Sets Up Bioethics Panel on Cloning, Research (CNN)
- Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. Reports U.S. Patent Allowance for the Allogeneic Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells (BusinessWire)

November 28
- Democrat Blocks Senate Debate of Cloning Ban (CNN)
- Pro-Cloning Group, Clonaid, Claims to Have Embryos (CNN) (New Scientist)

November 27
- Senate Plans to Stall Cloning Issue (USA Today)
- UK: Cloning Ban Clears House of Lords (BBC)
- A Breakthrough on Cloning? Perhaps, or Perhaps Not Yet (New York Times)
- Few Legal Barriers On Human Cloning In Australia, New Zealand (CNSNews)

November 26
- Senator Vows to Force Vote on Human Cloning Ban (CNSNews)
- U.S. Company Clones Human Embryo for Cells (Advanced Cell Technology) (Reuters) (Washington Post) (USA Today) (New York Times) (BBC) (CNN) (MSNBC) (Africa Online) (The Star) (Wired News)
- Bush Urges Ban On Human Cloning (BBC)
- Heated Debate Breaks Out Over Cloning of Human Embryo (BBC) (Florida Today) (CNN) (CNS News)
- Britain Moves to Close Loophole on Human Cloning (BBC) (Ananova) (Christian Science Monitor)
- Cloning Opponents Fear Loopholes in New UK Law (New Scientist)
- Cloning Still to Prove Itself (BBC) (Telegraph)
- London: What Is Therapeutic Cloning? (This Is London)
- Study: Cloned Adult Cows Healthy (MSNBC) (BBC) (Dominion Post) (Katu) (Nando Times) (Nature) (New York Times)

November 21
- Singapore To Allow Stem Cell Research; Cloning Prohibited (Agence France-Presse)

November 20
- U.N. Committee Backs Global Pact Banning Human Cloning (Nando Times)

November 19
- First Cloned Human Embryos Coming Soon (ninemsn) (INQ7)

November 16
- UK: Court Ruling Means Cloning Not Illegal  (New Scientist) (BBC) (Wired News)
- Doctor To Exploit Cloning Loophole (BBC) (Ananova) (The Herald)
- Emergency Laws To Ban Human Cloning (Guardian Unlimited) (BBC)

November 15
- Campaigners Win Cloning Challenge (BBC) (CNSNews)

November 8
- Britain: Scientist's Cloning Application To Be Rejected (Sun-Sentinel) (Orlando Sentinel)

November 2
- Senate Sidesteps Cloning, Stem Cell Debates (Wired News) (CNN) (Nando Times) (New York Times)