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CLONING HUMAN BANS. "But therapeutic cloning raises ethical questions. In 2005, The United Nations ?.. adopted a non-binding declaration that called for the ban of human cloning on the grounds of dignity. And the United States government has restricted the use of federal funds for research into therapeutic or reproductive cloning." http://lnkd.in/d3BjhdD View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTIVE VS THERAPEUTIC CLONING. "But nuclear transfer is also the first step in reproductive cloning, or producing a genetic duplicate of someone ... In 2005, the United Nations called on countries to ban it, and the United States prohibits the use of federal funds for either reproductive or therapeutic cloning." http://lnkd.in/dP5GBQj View in LinkedIn

UK CONSUMERS WANT TRANSPARENCY ON PROVENANCE OF FOOD (2011). "Food from the offspring of cloned animals, including meat and milk, has been approved for sale without labels. The Food Standards Agency yesterday tore up proposals that would have required it to go through a safety assessment. It comes despite research showing eight in ten shoppers oppose the cloning of farm livestock." http://lnkd.in/dHgDQWd View in LinkedIn

CHURCH'S THREE CHOICES FOR STEM CELLS, "stem cells in bone marrow ... They are easy to use and to get to work when you implant them in bone marrow. You might one day have three choices. You can have bone marrow from someone else that is matched to you, or that is from you, or bone marrow that is matched to you and comes to you, but is better than you." http://lnkd.in/dWBcA_p View in LinkedIn

EXTENT OF THE UK CLONED MEAT CASES. "At least 100 clone offspring cattle are being reared on farms in this country. Most are at Newmeadow Holsteins, a dairy herd based at Nairn, North-East Scotland. But Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, the Co-op, Marks & Spencer and Waitrose have responded to customer concerns ..." http://lnkd.in/duWPR4r View in LinkedIn

iPS FOR DRUG DISCOVERY. "The growing number of human disease models made with patient-specific iPSCs has made it possible to conduct research on a wide range of disorders, including rare diseases and those with multifactorial origin, as well as to simulate drug effects on difficult-to-obtain tissues such as brain and cardiac muscle." http://stemcellstm.alphamedpress.org/content/early/2014/01/31/sctm.2013-0162.abstract View in LinkedIn

UK BEEF PROVENANCE BY FLAWED PASSPORT. "But the passport law was passed before large-scale animal cloning became feasible. On the British form, there is simply no box labeled "American clone" for farmers to tick. And British agriculture officials were apparently unaware of the restrictions because they were imposed by another bureaucracy — the Food Standards Agency." http://lnkd.in/dEdpBmj View in LinkedIn

US STEM CELL TRIAL IN PARKINSON'S. "If all goes well, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will approve an attempt to replace the brain cells destroyed in Parkinson’s. The new cells, grown from each patient’s own skin cells, are expected to restore normal movement in the patients." http://lnkd.in/dAdZmyV View in LinkedIn

NOV 2012, USA CLONED MEAT: DATA NOT AVAILABLE. "It may come as a surprise, but you may be consuming cloned meat on a regular basis. In fact, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (head of the USDA) says that he has no idea whether or not cloned meat has been sold inside the United States — or even how much." http://lnkd.in/drhUGqE View in LinkedIn

STEM CELLS AND DIABETES. "Scientists have used cloning technology to make stem cells from a woman with Type 1 diabetes that are genetically matched to her and to her disease. They hope to someday use such cells as tailor-made transplants to treat or potentially even cure the disease, which affects millions and which now has few treatment options ..." http://lnkd.in/d9ezn5r View in LinkedIn