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This story on Fox News details some of the debate surrounding current talks about human cloning, an act the U.S. House of Representatives has already voted to ban. Although this story doesn't say so, the technique used to clone humans is strikingly similar to the technique recently used by an Australian researcher to develop mouse embryos without sperm. The greatest difference is that the somatic cells in the Australian experiment came from two different adults. The HR bill specifically bans the reproduction of humans via somatic cell transfer, which means the Australian research, though not technically "cloning," is included in the ban. The Fox News article also describes some interesting biological problems with somatic cell transfer, including the production of a more rapidly aging animal.
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