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Human embryos created using a so-called "virgin conception" technique have been made in the UK for the first time. The Roslin Institute, which also cloned Dolly the sheep, reported the so-called parthenotes at a Dublin conference. They are made by stimulating a human egg to start dividing like an embryo without the addition of any genetic material from a male sperm cell. The Edinburgh team has so far created six parthenotes to the stage at which they would hope to mine stem cells. "At the moment we have not managed to get stem cells from these embryos but that...

When Ron Reagan eulogized his father in a more or less respectful manner, I briefly hoped things might be different. Perhaps Ron Reagan would bury in the earth his history of working to humiliate the man many of us would have gladly called father or grandfather. Maybe the no longer young Ron Reagan would find meaning in his life without perversely cannibalizing his father's legacy further. When Nancy Reagan expressed her support for stem cell research, many of us could understand her position. She was never a movement conservative. She was simply a woman who loved her husband truly and...