Us deliberates on embryonic stem cells, cloning

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe In a speech televised in August from his Texas home, US President George W. Bush endorsed a plan for funding human embryonic stem (ES) cell

research in the public sector, while imposing sharp restrictions on the cell lines eligible for such studies and also establishing a special Council on Bioethics to oversee the research. In

a related move barely more than a week earlier, members of the US House of Representatives voted by a substantial majority in favor of a broad measure to ban public and private human cloning

research and medical procedures, and to impose criminal sanctions on anyone who fails to heed those restrictions. So far, however, the Senate has not deliberated over this issue, but seems

unlikely to agree to comparably broad anti-human cloning measures. In terms of federal policy at least, the issues of human ES cell and cloning research became ever more tightly interwoven

during the public and political debate of July and August. The spotlight—along with widespread skepticism and sharper criticism from much of the scientific establishment—often focused on the

cloning of a donor nucleus into an enucleated human egg as a potential means for aiding individuals to reproduce (reproductive cloning). However, the main tie of current ES cell research

involves a more limited approach to such cloning—not to produce babies but for eventual use as a source in clinical procedures using tailored ES cells (therapeutic cloning). This is a

preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your institution Subscribe to this journal Receive 12 print issues and online access $209.00 per

year only $17.42 per issue Learn more Buy this article * Purchase on SpringerLink * Instant access to full article PDF Buy now Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated

during checkout ADDITIONAL ACCESS OPTIONS: * Log in * Learn about institutional subscriptions * Read our FAQs * Contact customer support AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS *

Washington, DC Jeffrey L. Fox Authors * Jeffrey L. Fox View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions

ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Fox, J. US deliberates on embryonic stem cells, cloning. _Nat Biotechnol_ 19, 791 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0901-791 Download citation * Issue

Date: September 2001 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0901-791 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a

shareable link is not currently available for this article. Copy to clipboard Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative