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Cloning

Human Embryos Cloned (PDF, get a reader at Adobe) by Advanced Cell Technology. Or see an HTML version.

A concise timetable of cloning.

See also Time Magazine's take on the issue.

Animals and Livestock

The Announcement of Nuclear Transfer Technology.: For the first time, the complete genetic material of one adult mammalian cell was transferred into an unfertilized egg cell, creating "Dolly the Sheep".
Roslin Institute: Cloning and Genetic Modification.: 18 December 1997, Roslin Institute revealed the first transgenic lambs produced by nuclear transfer. The lambs cloned possess a human gene which should concentrate in their milk the "Factor IX", a human clotting factor which should prove of use in human hemophiliacs. Human hemophiliacs have formerly depended upon clotting factors derived from the blood of human donors, and are at therefor at extreme risk of contracting the HIV-III virus. This is a scientific breakthrough in many ways as profound as was the demonstation of cloning itself; this demonstrates a possibility of mass-production of mammals genetically modified for specific traits, such as mass-production of medically-essential mammalian proteins, without the need for highly-technical or extreme measures such as tissue-culturing or maintenance of cultures of transgenic bacteria.
ABS Global, Inc: Announced on 7th August 1997 that they had used stem-cell cloning of an embryo to produce a clone of that embryo, a calf named Gene, which was 6 months old at the time of the announcement.
The Missyplicity Project.: This link is to a web page which solicits Requests for Proposals from the scientific community, for a project to clone a wealthy philanthropist's family pet. Cloning dogs can't be that different from cloning other livestock, now could it?
ProBio America, Inc: Has been issued the license for the so-called "Honolulu Cloning Technique (University of Hawaii), which first demonstrated reproducible cloning, in this case producing five generations of clones-of-clones mice.

Please note that there is now an area of the National Institute of Standards and Technology which genetic manipulation and cloning in animals. Please see their Advanced Transgenesis and Cloning Page.

And remember: "be kind to your neighbors, even though they be transgenic chimerae".

Human

So far as anyone knows, nobody has ever cloned a full human being.

There is present action in the United States Congress and Senate which propose to ban the cloning of human beings. Please read a well-reasoned paper about Humanitarian Objections to a Cloning Ban.

Please read the report, Cloning Human Beings - Report and Recommendations of the NBAC, June 1997. An enhanced-HTML unofficial complete-version of this report is available here.

The official version is available only in PDF format. You can get the free PDF reader from Adobe.

UNIX users should use a search-engine to find the source-code of 'xpdf'.

Web Resources

Search the Journal of the American Medical Association for:
The Case for Cloning Humans.: A dissertation by a philosophy student, I think.
Council for Secular Humanism's Declaration in Defense of Cloning.
DreamTech links page.: This is a very well-maintained and professionally-done site, be sure to see the entire site, it is a work of art.
Conceiving A Clone: A very well-researched and well-developed information resource on cloning.
The "Human Cloning Foundation": Seeks to prevent an outright ban on human cloning.
Mike McEwans' Cloning Page.
The National Center for Genome Resources
Human Cloning - Genetics - Brave New World: Dr. Patrick Dixons's site.
Scientific Discoveries and Cloning: Challenges for Public Policy.: From the Boston University Medical Center of Boston University.

UseNet:

If your news server doesn't carry it, bother your news admin until he creates it - alt.bio.technology.cloning. This is a new newsgroup to replace the miscreated alt.cloning newsgroup. Also see alt.bio.technology.misc. Ask your newsadmin to see the charter for those groups.
Primarily for discussion of life-extension, but cloning is one of the brightest present hopes for personal immortality. Please see alt.immortal.
General medical discussions - but there's always room for a thoughtful thread on cloning in sci.med.
A technical version of alt.immortality - sci.life-extension.
And of course, the inevitable alt.conspiracy.

Search Altavista for "human clone".

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