Patenting Human Life
Date: 05/20/2002According to the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA), the U. S. Patent Office has already issued a patent on …
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How to Ensure Success for Reproductive Cloning
Date: 05/17/2002The Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine issued a report, “Human Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (Cloning)” (sic), …
Read MoreU.S. Department of Justice: Enforcing a Partial Ban on Human Cloning Would Be “A Formidable Task”
Date: 05/16/2002In written testimony presented to the House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, the U.S. Department of …
Read MoreU.S. Patent Office Issues a Patent on Human Reproductive Cloning Covers the Embryos, Fetuses, and Children That Would Be Created Through That Process
Date: 05/16/2002Patent Watch is a project of the International Center for Technology Assessment May 16, 2002 PATENT WATCH ALSO DISCLOSES THREE …
Read MoreCurious Use of the ‘C’ Word
Date: 05/15/2002Gallup released poll results yesterday finding that 61% of those polled oppose cloning human embryos for use in medical research. …
Read MoreThe Hatch Hypothesis: A Strange, Unscientific Belief That May Confuse the Senate’s Cloning Vote
Date: 05/15/2002Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Ph.D. Dean, The Wilberforce Forum Director, Council for Biotechnology Policy Founding Editor, Ethics & Medicine …
Read MoreParaplegic Sees Little Hope in Research Cloning
Date: 05/14/2002James Kelly suffered a spinal cord injury in a car accident that left him paralyzed below the chest. The following …
Read MoreCloning for Cures Only Possible With Exploitation of Women
Date: 05/13/2002Although one should remain skeptical that research cloning will lead to cures, no therapy could proceed without the exploitation of …
Read MoreExecutive Summary of Patent Watch Project’s Discovery of First U.S. Patent for Reproductive Human Cloning
Date: 05/13/2002The first US patent for reproductive human cloning has been issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). …
Read MoreKrauthammer: Research Cloning “is not a slide down the slippery slope. This is downhill skiing.”
Date: 05/10/2002In today’s Washington Post, columnist Charles Krauthammer, a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics – and a supporter of …
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