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20 Years After Dolly, The Temptation To Clone Humans

Though the technology now exists to clone humans, and mercenaries are at the ready if allowed, most of the mainstream geneticist community points to other ways to get life-saving stem cells.

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Take 5: Bioethics Battles Around The World

From abortion to euthanasia, chimps’ rights to legal marijuana, here are some bioethical controversies currently making headlines around the world: FRANCE: THE RIGHT TO DIE A video uploaded on the Internet this month has sparked a new controversy in the case of Vincent Lambert, a 38-year-old French man in a neuro-vegetative state since a 2008 […]

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Wanted: Adventurous Female To Give Birth To Neanderthal

DER SPIEGEL (Germany), NEWS.COM.AU (Australia) Worldcrunch BOSTON – George Church, a Harvard School of Medicine genetics professor, believes that he can create a Neanderthal baby. All he needs is an “adventurous female.” George Church at TED 2010. Photo: Life, Synthetic Life! He told German magazine Der Spiegel: “I have already managed to attract enough DNA […]

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