Thu Mar 20, 2008
Therapeutic cloning has been used to treat Parkinson’s disease in mice in a report published in Nature Medicine. This is the first time cloning has been used to successfully treat any disease in the same subjects from whom the cells were derived. In therapeutic cloning, the nucleus of a cell from a donor subject is [...]
Thu Jan 17, 2008
The media has reported that South Australian MPs are being lobbied to reject legislation on the human therapeutic cloning for medical research. The South Australian Parliament will be the first in the world to vote on the issue since the reprogramming of human adult cells back to an embryonic-like state (called iPS cells) was announced [...]
Mon Aug 7, 2006
The coalition party room debate on the Lockhart Review of stem cell legislation is regarded by some as a last ditch attempt to persuade the Federal Government to allow the ban on somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), better known as ‘therapeutic cloning’, to be lifted. This was one of the recommendations of the Lockhart review [...]