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Salon.com August 21, 2000 Lori B. Andrews |
Embryos under the knife The latest reproductive technology is just the next step on our sprint toward human cloning. |
Wired January 2001 Brian Alexander |
(You)2 Human cloning has always been frightening, seductive - and completely out of reach. Not anymore... |
Salon.com January 31, 2001 Theresa Pinto Sherer |
Can two men make a baby? Researchers say it's possible, but lawmakers must pave the way... |
Salon.com August 8, 2001 |
To clone or not to clone? As two scientists threaten to begin human cloning "within weeks," scientists and ethicists say the two are acting irresponsibly... |
Wired January 2004 Wendy Goldman Rohm |
Seven Days of Creation The inside story of a human cloning experiment |
Salon.com June 18, 2002 Scott Anderson |
Playing God Bush's bioethics czar Leon Kass wants to criminalize lifesaving medical research as violating the natural order of things. Would he have opposed wiping out smallpox? |
The Motley Fool January 4, 2005 Charly Travers |
Cloning Fluffy Pet cloners like Genetic Savings & Clone (GSC) are clearly part of a new market on the verge of breaking open, and the opportunity for the first movers in this field is quite large. While private now, biotech investors need to keep watch. |
Popular Mechanics January 2010 Amber Angelle |
How to Create a Designer Baby Women undergoing in vitro fertilization could one day choose to have a baby boy with perfect vision, an aptitude for sports and a virtual lock on avoiding colon cancer. |
Wired October 2009 Gregg Easterbrook |
Gregg Easterbrook: Embrace Human Cloning Human clones, it is widely assumed, would be monstrous perversions of nature. Yet chances are, you already know one. They walk among us in the form of identical twins. |
BusinessWeek February 27, 2006 Catherine Arnst |
And Baby Makes...A Market "The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception" is a valuable, thought-provoking look at the baby-making business. |
Salon.com January 3, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
A mammoth undertaking Can genetic science bring extinct species back to life? And if it can, should we let it? |
Wired February 2002 Brendan I. Koerner |
Embryo Police Got designs on a designer baby? Egg sharing? Intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection? Meet the citizens panel that's more than happy to make your reproductive choice for you... |
The Motley Fool January 3, 2007 Stephen Albainy-Jenei |
Attack of the Pod Cows The FDA has endorsed food from cloned animals. While the agency's conclusions don't exactly herald the invasion of the farm-animal snatchers, they do provide an open opportunity for companies that are well-positioned in the industry. |
Reason October 2006 Kerry Howley |
Ova for Sale The art of the deal in the gray market for human eggs, written by Donor #15. |
Bio-IT World June 2005 Johan Bostrom |
Give a Dog a Clone The lack of products on the market is a common complaint about pioneering biotech companies, but Genetic Savings & Clone has sold five carbon-based products that purr when you stroke them. And the next offering will bark. |
Wired January 2003 Charles C. Mann |
The First Cloning Superpower Inside China's race to become the clone capital of the world. |
Fast Company September 2010 Scott Carney |
Human Egg Sales Raise Bioethical Issues Modern fertility technology has made parenthood a possibility for thousands more people, but it has also created a lucrative - and ethically questionable - global trade in human genetic material. |
Salon.com May 25, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Our shiny happy clone future Procreation without sex, smarter babies and the right to choose the sexual orientation of your kids -- it's all good, says scientist Gregory Stock... |
Wired June 2005 Clive Thompson |
How to Farm Stem Cells Without Losing Your Soul A solution to the stem cell dilemma that even the Vatican can love. |
Reason February 2009 Cheryl Miller |
Who's Your Daddy? Children of sperm donors are seeking more information about their once-anonymous fathers, sometimes at the risk of the fertility industry itself. |
Salon.com May 21, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Clone free Francis Fukuyama warns that the combination of runaway biotechnology and individual freedom could lead to a social nightmare... |
Salon.com January 4, 2001 Michael Scott Moore |
"Cloning: Responsible Science or Technomadness?" A new book shows that ethical questions about replicating humans are less consequential than the procedure's threat to our biological diversity... |
Psychology Today Sep/Oct 2007 Mark Teich |
A Man's Shelf Life As men age, their fertility decreases and the health risks to their unborn offspring skyrocket. But men who attend to their health can slow down the reproductive clock. |
Wired March 2000 Charles Graeber |
How Much Is That Doggy In The Vitro? Move over, Dolly. Here comes Fido forever - dog cloning, and the business potential due to pet owners outliving their pets. |
Reason April 2001 Cathy Young |
Monkeying Around with the Self Why support for biotech shouldn't foreclose the debate over its moral issues... |
Science News January 13, 2007 Christen Brownlee |
Cloned Meat and Milk Are Safe, But They Won't Hit Stores Soon A Food and Drug Administration analysis concludes that food from cloned animals is safe, but the effort and expense involved in creating these animals means that products from them won't be in markets anytime soon. |
Wired October 2003 Wendy Goldman Rohm |
The Test-Tube Family Reunion Louise Brown turns 25. Happy Birthday, IVF. |
Reason October 2001 Ronald Bailey |
Blastocyst Brouhaha Which human cells count as people? |
Chemistry World January 20, 2009 Nina Notman |
Raman hope for childless couples A non-invasive way to test the quality of sperm to be use in fertility treatments has been developed by UK scientists. |
ifeminists May 25, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Case Could Freeze Sperm Donation A state supreme court is considering a legal appeal that could set wide-reaching precedent for both child support policy and fertility clinics in the U.S. The tangled personal circumstances of this situation constitute a legal nightmare and the sort of 'hard' case that makes bad law. |
Scientific American July 2008 Sally Lehrman |
Dolly's Creator Moves Away from Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cells Like many stem cell pioneers, Ian Wilmut, the creator of Dolly the sheep, has jumped to an alternative approach. Is this the beginning of the end for embryonic cloning? |
Salon.com September 5, 2001 Lisa Moricoli Latham |
What are we fighting for? I just lost a pregnancy, but gained new insight into the stem cell debate... |
ifeminists November 10, 2004 Bettina Arndt |
Spermwars There are children being created in Australia today via the internet, chosen by mothers who scan sperm donors' ads for the biological father for their child. |
Wired October 16, 2007 Ben Paynter |
Cloned Beef (and Pork and Milk): It's What's for Dinner With cloned meat already at market, can -- and should -- the FDA keep farmers from using cloning technology in the dairy, beef, and pork industries? |
ifeminists September 22, 2004 |
Fertility Tourism Many aspiring parents dislike the laws that control fertility in the UK and are attracted by the more flexible foreign policies. |
Wired May 2002 Brian Alexander |
The Remastered Race Artificial chromosomes and in vitro screening are giving new life to the eugenics debate. The question is not whether we want to engineer embryos but how far it should go... |
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2009 Erin McCarthy |
Fringe's Human Mutant Not Possible, Says Expert We won't ever have to worry about Fringe's part-mole-rat, part-scorpion, part-human mutant in real life because it's not within the realm of possibility. |
Reason February 2005 Ronald Bailey |
The U.N. vs. Cloning In September 2004 President Bush strongly endorsed a United Nations resolution, proposed by Costa Rica, for a global treaty that would completely ban both reproductive cloning (that is, cloning to produce a baby) and therapeutic cloning. |
Salon.com October 5, 2000 Leah Kohlenberg |
Designer babies? Pediatrician and ethicist Joel Frader says that just because a family has had a child to provide a bone-marrow transplant for an ailing daughter, it doesn't mean custom-ordered kids are right around the corner... |
Bio-IT World July 11, 2002 Mark D. Uehling |
Flirting with Genomic Disaster A conversation with political scientist Francis Fukuyama about the prospect of ethics regulation in biotechnology. |
Health May 18, 2009 Hallie Levine Sklar |
Babies After 40: The Hidden Health Risks of Mid-Life Pregnancy The number of women giving birth into their 40s and 50s and beyond is at record highs |
Salon.com January 9, 2003 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Fun with pig clones Every porker is different, even if it shares the same genes with a litter of siblings. So forget about ordering a copy of your favorite faithful companion. |
Salon.com August 25, 2000 Jay Dixit |
Designer eggs This month a panel of medical experts responded to a Web pornographer who tried to auction supermodel eggs. |
Salon.com March 1, 2002 Jennifer Foote Sweeney |
A cruel choice A woman decides to have a child knowing that she's about to descend into dementia. That's morally indefensible... |
Reason |
Shopping for fertility markets Reproduction rules vary by country. For example, in France, gamete donation, sperm insemination, and in vitro fertilization (IVF) are available only to married couples or common-law spouses. |
AskMen.com Wendy Walsh |
Male Fertility It's true: In the last 50 years, human male fertility has been declining. |
AskMen.com |
Synthetic Sperm Created British scientists claimed Wednesday to have created human sperm from stem cells, but other experts questioned their data. |
Chemistry World November 21, 2007 John Bonner |
Female Reproductive System Can 'Sense' Sperm Female pigs detect when a boar's sperm arrives in their oviducts and trigger the release of proteins that help in fertilization. Corresponding proteins in humans could potentially be used to increase success in vitro fertilization. |
Wired May 2001 |
Rants & Raves The ethical and commercial issues in human cloning depend in part on resolving its biggest biological problem - namely, safety... America's ideologically driven fear of "state interference" has allowed its corporations to be far more intrusive and abusive than any European government... |
Chemistry World April 2010 |
Column: The crucible We are getting better at manipulating cells to grow into the tissues we need. Chemical factors are key, says Philip Ball |