NEW research on brain cells could shed more light on neurological diseases, scientists have discovered.

SCIENTISTS have found the genetic “brakes” that could slow down or stop diseases like multiple sclerosis and cancer, it emerged yesterday.

I THANK Oliver Broderick (Letters, May 13) for his engaging and questioning letter directed to me on stem cell research.

A NEW technique that creates human stem cells from fragments of skin could end the controversial use of human embryos to harvest stem cells, according to an Irish expert in human stem cell research.

Scientists have for the first time cloned embryos from an adult monkey, paving the way for major advances in human therapeutic cloning and stem cell research.

BRITISH scientists have developed genetically modified chickens capable of laying eggs containing proteins needed to make cancer-fighting drugs.

THE scientist who created Dolly the Sheep was yesterday granted a licence to clone human embryos in an attempt to find a cure for motor neurone disease.

A leading British scientist announced today that he wants to clone human embryos, saying it would be “immoral” not to carry out the research.

The intellectual property rights to cloning technology that helped spawn Dolly the sheep changed hands today in a £760,000 (€1.1m) deal.

SCIENTISTS have succeeded in creating the world’s first cloned horse, it emerged yesterday.

THE first British research licence of its kind permitting a technique that creates embryonic stem cells from human eggs has been granted to the scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep, it was announced yesterday.

A Singapore-based scientist who was part of the team that created Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, today said her premature death was proof of the many dangers of cloning.

THE death of Dolly the sheep, the first animal to be cloned from an adult cell, sparked renewed fears over the safety of cloning techniques last night.

Dolly the sheep - the first animal to be cloned from an adult cell - has died, the Roslin Institute said today.

Australia's first cloned sheep has died unexpectedly of unknown causes.

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POPE John Paul yesterday condemned the prospect of human cloning as scientists threw doubt on claims by Dr Severino Antinori that a cloned human child will be born in January.

The creator of Dolly the sheep hopes to lodge the first application to clone human embryos in Britain within six months, it emerged today.

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Dolly the sheep, the world’s first cloned mammal, has developed arthritis, one of her creators said today.

Many of the world’s leading scientists were meeting today to examine the latest advances in human genetics.

The Scottish firm involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep was tonight ‘‘fairly confident’’ it would avoid a cash crisis because of a lack of investment.

The foot-and-mouth outbreak has prompted scientists to place the world's first cloned sheep in quarantine.