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  2. Human cloning - Wikipedia

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    Human cloning is explicitly prohibited in Article 24, "Right to Life" of the 2006 Constitution of Serbia. [82] Singapore: Illegal [83] Legal [53] [49] Section 5 of the Human Cloning and Other Prohibited Practices Act 2004 prohibits the placing of a human embryo clone in the body of a human or animal. [83] Slovakia: Illegal [49] Illegal [49 ...

  3. Samuel H. Wood - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] [11] The five cloned embryos were later destroyed, [10] [11] [12] In January 2008, Wood and Andrew French, Stemagen's chief scientific officer in California, announced that they had successfully created the first five mature human embryos using DNA from adult skin cells, aiming to provide a less-controversial source of viable embryonic ...

  4. Somatic cell nuclear transfer - Wikipedia

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    For these reasons, along with moral and ethical objections, reproductive cloning in humans is proscribed in more than 30 countries. [31] Most researchers believe that in the foreseeable future it will not be possible to use the current cloning technique to produce a human clone that will develop to term.

  5. Clonaid - Wikipedia

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    Clonaid is an American-based human cloning organization, registered as a company in the Bahamas.Founded in 1997, it has philosophical ties with the UFO religion Raëlism, [1] which sees cloning as the first step in achieving immortality.

  6. Cloning - Wikipedia

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    Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning, which is the reproduction of human cells and tissues. It does not refer to the natural conception and delivery of identical twins. The possibility of human cloning has raised controversies. These ethical ...

  7. Stemagen - Wikipedia

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    Stemagen is a corporation headed by Dr. Samuel Wood, notable for cloning adult skin cells [1] [2] In January 2008, Dr. Andrew French, Stemagen's chief scientific officer and Wood in California, announced that they successfully created the first 5 mature human embryos using DNA from adult skin cells, aiming to provide a less-controversial source of viable embryonic stem cells. [3]

  8. Stem cell laws and policy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, it legalizes the process of cloning a human embryo, and implanting the clone into a womb, provided that the clone is then aborted and used for medical research. Missouri Constitutional Amendment 2 (2006) (Missouri Amendment Two) was a 2006 law that legalized certain forms of embryonic stem cell research in the state.

  9. Ethics of cloning - Wikipedia

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    The Sanatan Dharm (meaning the eternal set of duties for humans, which is what many people refer to Hinduism as) approves therapeutic cloning but does not approve human cloning. In Hinduism, one view has the creator, or the Brahman not as insecure to lay restrictions on scientific endeavours. Another view restricts human cloning.