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| The British government has given the creators of Dolly the Sheep a license to clone human embryos for medical research into the cause of motor neuron disease. University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) bioethicist Gregory Pence, Ph.D., is available to provide insight and analysis on the cloning debate. Pence says that society needs to rethink bans on cloning. |
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WHO: |
| Pence is author of the new book Cloning After Dolly: Who’s Still Afraid? He is a professor in the UAB Department of Philosophy. |
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| Pence’s other books include Brave New Bioethics, Designer Food: Mutant Harvest or Breadbasket of the World, Flesh of My Flesh: The Ethics of Cloning Humans, Who’s Afraid of Human Cloning?, Re-Creating Medicine: Ethical Issues at the Frontiers of Medicine and Classic Cases in Medical Ethics. |
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| For interviews, contact Gail Short, UAB Media Relations, (205) 934-8931 or gshort@uab.edu. |
UAB Bioethicist Available to Comment on Issue of Human Cloning
The British government has given the creators of Dolly the Sheep a license to clone human embryos for medical research into the cause of motor neuron disease. University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) bioethicist Gregory Pence, Ph.D., is available to provide insight and analysis on the cloning debate. Pence says that society needs to rethink bans on cloning.