Chicago scientist Richard Seed announced a plan to begin cloning human beings at his clinic in January of 1998. In November 1998, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission began conducting a thorough review of the issues associated with human stem cell research, in the United States. The stem cell is a unique and essential cell type found in all animals. In adult the organism stem cells are those that renew tissue, the most fundamental and extraordinary of the …showed first 75 words of 571 total…

…showed last 75 words of 571 total…Greenwood (R-Pa.) and Peter Deutsch (D-Fla.). The bill prohibits the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer "with the intent to initiate a pregnancy" but would permit potentially life-saving research to continue. Introduced by Representative Weldon, the H.R. 2505 bill Allows other areas of scientific research, including research on the use of nuclear transfer or other cloning techniques to produce molecules, DNA, cells other than human embryos, tissues, organs, and plants or animals other than humans.