<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Cloning</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/science/cloning?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><description>Cloning</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Cloned Cows' Milk, Beef Up to Standard]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45025-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45025-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Milk and meat from cloned cattle are almost identical in composition to the milk and meat from conventionally bred cattle, according to the first comprehensive assessment of the nutritional value of food from clones.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATION IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17348-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17348-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   3 Closed Parishes Are Given Reprieve <br>   WEYMOUTH, Mass.  --   The Roman Catholic parish that sparked a wave of protests against church closings in the Boston Archdiocese will reopen, the archbishop announced Thursday.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mass. House Passes Law Expanding Use of Stem Cells]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17130-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17130-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  BOSTON, March 31  --  The Massachusetts House passed a bill Thursday  night that would give scientists more freedom to conduct embryonic stem cell research in the state.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mass. Senate Passes Stem Cell Bill That May Face Governor's Veto]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13970-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13970-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Massachusetts Senate voted overwhelmingly  in favor of a bill to promote stem cell research in the state while outlawing human reproductive cloning and imposing a series of new regulations on the cutting-edge field.]]></description><author> Jonathan Finer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WASHINGTON  IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45138-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45138-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Ban on Human Cloning  Is Introduced Again <br>Sens. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.), with Reps.  David Joseph Weldon (R-Fla.) and Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), yesterday reintroduced legislation to ban the creation of human embryos or babies by cloning.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Backs Human Cloning Ban]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18205-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18205-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ UNITED NATIONS, March 8  --  The U.N. General Assembly adopted a declaration Tuesday that calls on governments to ban all forms of human cloning that are "incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life."]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatives Draft a 'Bioethics Agenda' for President]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15569-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15569-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Frustrated by Congress's failure to ban human cloning or place even modest limits on human embryo research, a group of influential conservatives have drafted a broad "bioethics agenda" for President Bush's second term and have begun the delicate task of building a political coalition to support it.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Case for Cloning]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2837-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2837-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After previewing the first three episodes, it's safe to say that the new "Law & Order" proudly upholds the franchise.]]></description><author> Tom Shales</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Panel Seeks Bans on Cloning]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36330-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36330-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 18 -- A deeply divided General Assembly committee voted Friday to approve a declaration calling on governments to prohibit all forms of human cloning,  including techniques used in research on human stem cells.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bills Renew Fight on Stem Cells]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30588-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30588-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Congressional supporters of human embryonic stem cell research launched their most intensive effort to expand federal funding for the controversial field, introducing identical bills Tuesday in the Senate and House that would loosen research restrictions President Bush imposed in 2001.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pet Clones Are Spurring Call for Limits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30589-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30589-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Clone a cat, go to jail -- or at least pay a fine. That is the goal of animal welfare activists who announced that they are seeking state and federal restrictions on the small but growing pet-cloning industry.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATION IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22032-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22032-2005Feb13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Anti-Terror Gas Masks for Police Taken Out of Service in N.C., N.Y. <br>    RALEIGH, N.C. --  North Carolina and New York are withdrawing from service thousands of Australian-made gas masks bought for police after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks because they do not meet federal standards for protection against nerve gas, anthrax bacteria and other toxins.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[British to Clone Human Embryos for Stem Cells]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9118-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9118-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The move parallels similar actions in Korea and China, and has some American scientists concerned that the United States is losing its lead in biomedical research.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Urges Dialogue to Counter 'Arrogance of Power']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64158-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64158-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ROME, Jan. 10 -- Pope John Paul II, who opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq and the Bush administration's policy of preventive war, criticized on Monday the "arrogance of power," which he said should be countered with reason and dialogue.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 Stem Cell Options Presented]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33766-2004Dec3.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33766-2004Dec3.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The panel of experts that advises President Bush on bioethical issues heard descriptions Friday of two new laboratory techniques that may provide a way to get large numbers of medically promising stem cells without creating or killing human embryos.]]></description><author> David Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Drops Effort to Prohibit Human Cloning]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63736-2004Nov19.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63736-2004Nov19.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration avoids what promised to be an acrimonious battle at the United Nations over the right of countries to clone human embryos for medical research.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calif. Stem Cell Initiative Could Backfire]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48184-2004Nov13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48184-2004Nov13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The $3 billion initiative may have the unintended consequence of slowing research nationwide and creating a backlash from religious conservatives.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Split on Human Cloning Ban]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53083-2004Oct21.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53083-2004Oct21.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 21 -- Britain, Japan, South Korea, India and scores of other close U.S. allies sought to head off the Bush administration's campaign to seek a global ban on all forms of human cloning, saying it would undercut scientific efforts to develop cures for cancers, diabetes and a host of other diseases.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harvard  Seeks to Clone Embryos for Stem Cells]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29937-2004Oct13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29937-2004Oct13.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Goal of ethically contentious, privately financed work is to develop new cures for diabetes, Parkinson's disease and other ailments.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 GOP Senators Defend Bush on Stem Cell Research]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61162-2004Aug12.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61162-2004Aug12.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/cloning</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At a time when polls show overwhelming support for the research,  Sens. Gordon Smith (Ore.) and Trent Lott (Miss.) expressed concern that Bush is not receiving his due for allowing some federally funded research to go forward while Kerry is not being properly scrutinized for supporting the more controversial "therapeutic" cloning.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item></channel></rss>