Scientists call for UN compromise on cloning
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Britain&#39;s leading scientists today urge the United Nations to ban cloning of babies but leave open the door for cloning of embryo stem cells as treatments for so-far incurable illnesses.
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Scientists may be allowed to clone embryos from donated tissues without the need for "express" consent.
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The highly contentious issue of cloning is back on the U.N. agenda, with support among member states for a treaty banning human cloning but divisions over the use of human embryos for medical research.
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An influential World Health Organization committee has upset a some scientists with its recommendation that researchers be permitted to conduct genetic-engineering experiments with the smallpox virus.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  -- Harvard University scientists have asked the university's ethical review board for permission to produce cloned human embryos for disease research, potentially becoming the first researchers in the nation to wade into a divisive area of study that has become a presidential campaign issue...
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Britain's leading scientific institution said Monday it is urging countries to back a campaign to stop a possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty banning human cloning. The London-based Royal Society is stepping up its drive to push the United Nations to ban the cloning of babies, but to make no ruling on using the technology for medical research, or therapeutic cloning, at its 59th General Session in October. The 191-nation U.N. General Assembly is divided over whether to allow therapeutic cloning to continue or to adopt a broad cloning ban championed by the Bush administration and Costa Rica with strong backing from the U.S. anti-abortion movement and many predominantly Roman Catholic nations.
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University of Pittsburgh scientists have cloned monkey embryos from adult cells, but the clones failed to survive when implanted in surrogate mothers.
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UK scientists are calling for the UN to ignore a call by President Bush to ban all forms of cloning.
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Britain&#39;s leading academic institution is backing a campaign to stop the US banning on all forms of human cloning. The Royal Society has joined 67 other national academies urging the UN to ban the cloning
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A team of Harvard University researchers has asked the school's ethics authorities for permission to clone human stem cells for use in seeking cures for such diseases as diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, a Harvard spokeswoman said.
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The United States was set to bring its call for a total ban on human cloning back to the UN on Thursday as the world community again struggled for consensus on the divisive issue.
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Britain's Royal Society is backing a campaign to stop the US securing a world ban on all forms of human cloning.
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The government is looking into calls to lift a ban on creating embryos from dying children to aid key research.
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By putting off a vote on banning all human cloning, nations have let embryo research for therapeutic reasons gain momentum. By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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UNITED NATIONS UN diplomats are dropping plans to draft a treaty banning human cloning, and could settle for a weaker declaration instead.
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Both sides in the human cloning debate claimed victory Friday after the United Nations shelved competing proposals for a treaty to ban the procedure and agreed to meet again in February to try to find consensus.
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PARIS, Nov 20 (IPS) - A group of scientists, including several Nobel  laureates in medicine, are urging international institutions and  governments in the industrialised world to adopt a radical policy  against chemical pollution in order to protect human health.