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, ...

Cloning human organs has sparked intense interest and debate in recent years, drawing attention from scientific, ethical, and medical communities. The potential for cloning human organs presents ...

Leon Kass, chairman of the president's advisory council on bioethics, claims that "cloning represents a turning point in human history. ... It thus carries with it a number of troubling consequences ...

AT THE END OF FEBRUARY, the White House announced changes in the membership of the President’s Council on Bioethics. Anyone who followed the resulting controversy might be forgiven for supposing that ...

Does it open the door to ‘therapeutic cloning’? A new report from the President’s Council on Bioethics calls for a ban on reproductive cloning—or “attempts to conceive a child by any means other than ...