Links and Resources
In "Born Again: Faith and Yearning in the Cloning Controversy," Laurie Zoloth addresses the ethical dilemmas and complications that accompany progressing cloning technologies from a theological perspective.
A page on bioethics including background on legal and ethical aspects of cloning and related issues and religious perspectives from various traditions.
Center for animal biotechnology located in Edinburgh, Scotland that created Dolly, the first animal cloned from a cell taken from an adult animal.
The U.S. Human Genome Project coordinated by the Department of Energy provides an excellent overview of cloning and some of the inherent ethical issues involved with the advancement of cloning.
Web site created for a Stanford University course providing a historical timeline of cloning research.
A report by Brian Alexander in The New York Times Magazine (September 26, 2004) that addresses the issue of cloning and stem cell research from an unexpected perspective—Constitutional protection under the First Amendment clause.
A collection of articles and essays related to cloning from New Scientist magazine.
How Stuff Works provides an explanation of how cloning would theoretically work.
The Washington Post provides a special section devoted to the latest news on the cloning/stem cell debate in the United States and around the world.
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Zoloth is director of Bioethics at the Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University, and a scholar in the Jewish Talmud and ancient rabbinic texts.
