The President’s Council on Bioethics will examine the issue of human cloning as its first immediate project, Leon R. Kass, the panel’s chairman, said Thursday at the panel’s inaugural meeting. Dr.

A sharply divided presidential bioethics panel issued a report on Thursday in which a majority of the members favor a four-year moratorium on attempts to create cloned cells for medical research, ...

White House bioethics advisers were weighing the benefits of medical advances against the moral hazards of human cloning, a day after President Bush challenged the group to be the "conscience of the ...

NEW YORK — While the United Nations is gearing up to vote on a comprehensive ban on human cloning next month, some cloning proponents have sought to move the debate to a more cloning-friendly ...

In an effort to help the public make sense of an escalating number of news stories about "designer babies," genetic engineering and cloning, the Women's Bioethics Project (WBP) today announced the ...