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Milk and meat from cloned cattle are almost identical in composition to the milk and meat from conventionally bred cattle, according to the first comprehensive assessment of the nutritional value of food from clones. - [Read more]

3 Closed Parishes Are Given Reprieve
WEYMOUTH, Mass. -- The Roman Catholic parish that sparked a wave of protests against church closings in the Boston Archdiocese will reopen, the archbishop announced Thursday. - [Read more]

BOSTON, March 31 -- The Massachusetts House passed a bill Thursday night that would give scientists more freedom to conduct embryonic stem cell research in the state. - [Read more]

The Massachusetts Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill to promote stem cell research in the state while outlawing human reproductive cloning and imposing a series of new regulations on the cutting-edge field. - [Read more]

Ban on Human Cloning Is Introduced Again
Sens. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.), with Reps. David Joseph Weldon (R-Fla.) and Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), yesterday reintroduced legislation to ban the creation of human embryos or babies by cloning. - [Read more]

UNITED NATIONS, March 8 -- The U.N. General Assembly adopted a declaration Tuesday that calls on governments to ban all forms of human cloning that are "incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life." - [Read more]

Frustrated by Congresss failure to ban human cloning or place even modest limits on human embryo research, a group of influential conservatives have drafted a broad "bioethics agenda" for President Bushs second term and have begun the delicate task of building a political coalition to support it. - [Read more]

After previewing the first three episodes, its safe to say that the new "Law & Order" proudly upholds the franchise. - [Read more]

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 18 -- A deeply divided General Assembly committee voted Friday to approve a declaration calling on governments to prohibit all forms of human cloning, including techniques used in research on human stem cells. - [Read more]

Congressional supporters of human embryonic stem cell research launched their most intensive effort to expand federal funding for the controversial field, introducing identical bills Tuesday in the Senate and House that would loosen research restrictions President Bush imposed in 2001. - [Read more]

Clone a cat, go to jail -- or at least pay a fine. That is the goal of animal welfare activists who announced that they are seeking state and federal restrictions on the small but growing pet-cloning industry. - [Read more]

The move parallels similar actions in Korea and China, and has some American scientists concerned that the United States is losing its lead in biomedical research. - [Read more]

ROME, Jan. 10 -- Pope John Paul II, who opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq and the Bush administrations policy of preventive war, criticized on Monday the "arrogance of power," which he said should be countered with reason and dialogue. - [Read more]

The panel of experts that advises President Bush on bioethical issues heard descriptions Friday of two new laboratory techniques that may provide a way to get large numbers of medically promising stem cells without creating or killing human embryos. - [Read more]

The Bush administration avoids what promised to be an acrimonious battle at the United Nations over the right of countries to clone human embryos for medical research. - [Read more]

The $3 billion initiative may have the unintended consequence of slowing research nationwide and creating a backlash from religious conservatives. - [Read more]

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 21 -- Britain, Japan, South Korea, India and scores of other close U.S. allies sought to head off the Bush administrations campaign to seek a global ban on all forms of human cloning, saying it would undercut scientific efforts to develop cures for cancers, diabetes and a host of other diseases. - [Read more]

Goal of ethically contentious, privately financed work is to develop new cures for diabetes, Parkinsons disease and other ailments. - [Read more]

At a time when polls show overwhelming support for the research, Sens. Gordon Smith (Ore.) and Trent Lott (Miss.) expressed concern that Bush is not receiving his due for allowing some federally funded research to go forward while Kerry is not being properly scrutinized for supporting the more controversial "therapeutic" cloning. - [Read more]