Cloning

Cloning in Korea

Jared Yee | 10 December 2011

The recent past of Korea’s cloning research is best described as dubious. Disgraced Seoul University professor Hwang Woo-suk claimed in 2004 to have cloned human embryos and developed stem-cell lines, but most of that work was exposed as fraud in 2005. Now another scientist, Park Se-pill, of Jeju National University, is aiming to clone human embryonic stem cells by 2015, a breakthrough that scientists still have not yet achieved.

Cloning still unpopular: Gallup poll

Jared Yee | 12 June 2011

Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs poll shows that 84% of Americans still oppose human cloning.

Unacceptable death rates end animal cloning trials

Jared Yee | 04 March 2011

Cloning presents significant health risks

Best novel about cloning now a movie

Michael Cook | 17 September 2010

Is cloning Neanderthals ethical?

Jared Yee | 20 February 2010

Legal, ethical and scientific obstacles loom

Hwang’s therapeutic cloning may be outmoded

Michael Cook | 28 October 2009

iPS cell progress may have made it irrelevant