UN begins delicate cloning debate
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The United Nations begins a two-day debate on cloning with two competing resolutions on the table.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan on Thursday endorsed scientific studies that involve the  cloning of human embryos, differing with the Bush  administration's push for a treaty to ban such research.
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LONDON - Britain&#39;s leading scientific institution said yesterday it is calling for support from other countries to stop a possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty to ban human cloning.
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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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CLONING DECLARATION: U.N. diplomats are poised to approve a draft declaration to outlaw human cloning, a non-binding agreement that would not outlaw research cloning.
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Civil liberties groups express concern over an idea to take DNA from babies to help solve crimes.
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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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Advisers to the World Health Organization (news - web sites) have pressed the body to allow a few scientists to genetically modify the
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Britain staunchly defended the right to use human embryos for medical research while the Vatican backed a complete ban on human cloning as U.N. members Thursday began two days of debate on the highly contentious issue.
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The scientist who attracted the world's attention by cloning Dolly the Sheep is about to take another major step for medical research: cloning human embryos and experimenting on them with the British government's permission.
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Talks at the United Nations  appear to have failed to avert a new U.N. confrontation over a  U.S.-led drive to ban all cloning of human embryos including  for stem cell research, diplomats said on Thursday.
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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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A U.S.-led campaign to ban  cloning of human embryos, including for stem cell research, was  rejected by a divided United Nations on Friday as a General  Assembly committee abandoned the initiative in favor of a  nonbinding declaration against human cloning.
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The White House has reportedly suspended its bid for a UN ban on human cloning, avoiding what was shaping up to be a bruising fight.
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A cloning scientist yesterday rejected accusations that his work was exploitative, unsafe and socially unacceptable. Panayiotis Zavos, of the Centre for Reproductive Medicine in Lexington, Kentucky, claims
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The United Nations has shelved efforts to draft a treaty banning the cloning of human embryos in a setback for the Bush administration.
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The Vatican, in its first speech ever to the U.N. General Assembly, called Wednesday for a total ban on human cloning and criticized the war in Iraq and unilateral responses to terrorism.