CALL FOR CLONING BAN
Cloning babies should be banned worldwide by the UN, say more than 60 scientific academies. But their international panel says therapeutic cloning of cells, to create new tissue for transplant into sick patients, should not be covered by the ban, leaving nations free to choose whether to allow it. A draft convention to ban all human cloning will be discussed by the UN next week.
CONSERVATION WATERSHED
The World Parks Congress, which ended in Durban, South Africa, last week, celebrated the fact that protected areas now occupy 12 per cent of the planet’s land. Achim Steiner,…
