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Tim Beardsley writes how a sheep cloned from adult cells opens vast scientific possibilities and ethical dilemmas. [Scientific American]
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Science Technology at Scientific American.com: A Clone in Sheep's Clothing A sheep cloned from adult cells opens vast scientific possibilities and ethical dilemmas A sheep cloned from adult cells opens vast scientific possibilities and ethical dilemmas By Tim Beardsley 1 2 next SHEEP FACSIMILE. The young lamb named Dolly (left with her surrogate mother, was created by cloning at the Roslin Institute. Photographs...Student project introducing the science, compares artificial and natural methods, and presents for and against arguments.
http://cloning.tripod.com/
Article by Christopher Mario, with a background on the issue and the controversy, and interviews with experts. [Princeton Info]
http://www.princetoninfo.com/clone.html
It may be unnatural, but encouraging genetic choice in humans is not bad. (It's also inevitable.) Says Oliver Morton. [Wired Magazine]
http://www.wired.com/wired/6.01/morton.html
Conducted by the Church of Scotland, the SRT project is an interdisciplinary working group of experts (including Ian Wilmut), covering both human and non-human animal cloning.
http://www.srtp.org.uk/cloning.shtml
The announcement that a team of British scientists had successfully cloned an adult sheep has touched off a new wave of discussion over the ethical implications of such a feat. [CNN]
http://cnn.com/TECH/9702/24/cloned.sheep/
Twins are feared in many cultures, and sometimes one is killed at birth, does this affect peoples perception of cloning? [Gene Letter]
http://www.genesage.com/professi...s/geneletter/archives/twins.html
Paper by Arthur Derse, MD, JD on the ethics of reproductive human cloning
http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1010763852.html
Pro-life perspective on human cloning by Wesley J. Smith from National Review Online
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-smith011402.shtml
Rosa Beddington, UK National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Mill Hill Essays.
http://194.83.182.241/MillHillEssays/1997/cloning.htm
Ethics and future of cloning animals, humans.
http://www.time.com/time/newsfiles/cloning/
Embryo research and the status of the early embryo is examined by Paul Lauritzen argues for a middle ground between those who argue that the embryo is a person and those who say it is property.
http://www.americamagazine.org/articles/lauritzen.htm
Sources recommended by a professor who specializes in the study of the ethics of cloning.
http://www.infography.com/content/012632376520.html
Dr Malpani's view on why we need to explore cloning scientifically
http://www.drmalpani.com/cloning.htm
Featuring videos, articles and ebook against animal and human cloning; by Dr Patrick Dixon.
http://www.globalchange.com/noclones.htm
Explains the Catholic Church's opposition to cloning and stem-cell research on human embryos, with resources from a Catholic ethicist, Pope John Paul II and others.
http://www.americancatholic.org/News/Cloning/default.asp
Articles by Prof. Dr. Schirmacher analyzes the postmodern condition and descision of the world to clone humans with media and describes our fundamental activity as Homo generator.
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/schir...r-cloning-humans-with-media.html
Ethics body backs cloning move. Report seeks legalisation of embryo research to tackle disease. [News Unlimited]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3982849,00.html