ATLANTA (CNN) -- For infertile couples, in vitro fertilization (IVF), where egg and sperm are joined in a laboratory, may provide their only chance to have a baby. But the technique is still a roll of ...

WASHINGTON — The congressional debate over human cloning and embryo research took a dramatic turn Tuesday as anti-abortion Sen. Orrin Hatch announced his support for a bill that would outlaw the ...

SEATTLE - In a clash of politics and science, the first successful cloning of a human embryo - and the extraction of stem cells from it - has ignited new calls for a ban on all forms of human cloning ...

Scientists in South Korea have for the first time cloned a human embryo and harvested stem cells from it, a long-awaited achievement expected to usher in a brave new world of powerful medical ...

The British parliament has voted to allow the cloning of human embryos, despite a united appeal by the country’s religious leaders urging delay. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the two most senior Roman ...

An entirely appropriate stew of scientific vexation and mortification has accompanied revelations that the incredible Korean achievements in human embryonic cloning and stem cell research are exactly ...

What would Rachel Carson say about human embryo cloning? It's an incongruous question, perhaps. After all, the current debate over cloning and embryo research was inconceivable in 1962 when Carson ...

Scientists in South Korea have for the first time cloned a human embryo and harvested stem cells from it, a long-awaited achievement expected to usher in a brave new world of powerful medical ...

A Dec. 26 front-page article about human cloning legislation incorrectly reported the location of a recent meeting between Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and representatives of a Massachusetts biotech ...

A laboratory at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom created mouse embryos from embryonic stem cells, circumventing the traditional sperm-egg fertilization process, according to an early edition ...