Vatican condemns cloned human embryo research
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The Vatican on Friday condemned the cloning of human embryos, calling it the "worst type of exploitation of the human being".
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Leading scientists have urged peers not to block the use of human-animal hybrid embryos for research.
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Pope John Paul branded euthanasia a distortion of medical ethics on Friday, saying doctors could not decide "who can live and who must die."
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A U.S.-led campaign to ban  cloning of human embryos, including for stem cell research,  crumbled on Friday as a divided United Nations prepared to  abandon the initiative.
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Embryonic stem cells are contaminated with an animal molecule, meaning they could not be used to treat humans, say researchers.
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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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ROME, NOV. 3, 2004 .- A British agency&#39;s decision to allow the screening of embryos produced by in-vitro fertilization for the purpose of destruction was roundly assailed by a Vatican official.
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Pope John Paul branded euthanasia  a distortion of medical ethics on Friday, saying doctors could  not decide "who can live and who must die."
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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy -- Pope John Paul II warned in a statement released Sunday that humanity&#39;s speedy progress in science and technology risks overlooking moral values, citing with particular concern experiments in human cloning.
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CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy  - Pope John Paul on Sunday  condemned human cloning as an arrogant attempt to improve on  God's creation.
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Senators trying to promote human  stem cell research rebuked a team of corporate scientists on  Wednesday, saying their claims to have produced human embryonic  stem cells without harming the embryo had misrepresented their  work and hurt the cause.
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Stem cells from human embryos are seen as the future of medicine, but a major ethical question surrounds the research: Should federally funded scientists be allowed to extract the cells from embryos, a process which destroys them? Current U.S. laws clearly say &ldquo;no.&rdquo;  Ian Wilmut, who made history when he cloned  Dolly the sheep in 1996, is now calling on scientists to inject human DNA into animal egg cells as a workaround to ethical and legal roadblocks. His commentary appears in Nature Reports Stem Cells, an online stem cell resource created by the journal Nature. ...
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A measure that forbids cloning human embryos but allows scientists to extract stem cells from unwanted embryos for medical research is approved by Swiss voters. The restrictive legislation is similar to that of the Netherlands and Spain.
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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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The United Nations has abandoned efforts to devise a global treaty banning the cloning of human beings. While there was near universal support to ban reproductive cloning of babies, the international community
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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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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.