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Australia

• National Health and Medical Research Council
  • The Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Act 2006 (‘Patterson Bill’) [2007]
  • Stem cells, cloning and related issues
  • Legislative review
  • Human Embryo Research & Cloning

Canada

• Cancer Care Ontario
  • Stem Cell Transplantation in Adults: Recommendations [2009]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Present Role of Stem Cells for Fetal Genetic Therapy [2005]

Denmark

• Danish Council of Ethics
  • Patenting human genes and stem cells [2005]
  • Genetic Engineering and Cloning [2001]

Europe

• Council of Europe
  • Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings [2001]

• European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European Commission
  • Study on the patenting of inventions related to human stem cells [2002]
  • National regulations in the European Union regarding research on human embryos [2002]
  • Ethical aspects of patenting inventions involving human stem cell [2002]
  • Ethical aspects of human stem cell research and uses [2002]

• European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
  • Prolongation of Voluntary Moratorium on Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings [2007]

Germany

• Nationaler Ethikrat
  • Should the Stem Cell Law be amended? [2007]
  • Cloning for reproductive purposes and cloning for the purposes of biomedical research [2004]
  • Stem cell research [2001]
  • On the import of human embryonic stem cells [2001]

India

• Indian Council of Medical Research
  • Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Therapy [2007]

International

• International Council of Nurses
  • Cloning and human health [2007]

• United Nations
  • Ad Hoc Committee on an International Convention against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings

• World Medical Association
  • WMA Statement on Embryonic Stem Cell Research [2009]

Netherlands

• Health Council of the Netherlands
  • Embryonic stem cells without moral pain? [2005]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health
  • The Guidelines for Using Cells from Established Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines for Research [2006]

Singapore

• Bioethics Advisory Committee
  • The Ethical Position of Singapore on Embryonic Stem Cell Research [2003]

United Kingdom

• British Fertility Society
  • Cloning [2005]

• Department of Health
  • Report on the potential use of gene therapy in utero [2002]
  • Stem cell

United States of America

• American Academy of Neurology
  • Position statement regarding the use of embryonic and adult human stem cells in biomedical research -- American Academy of Neurology and American Neurological Association [2005]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Human Embryo Research [2009]

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • AAAS Policy Brief: Stem Cell Research [2007]

• American Bioethics Advisory Commission
  • Personhood
  • Cloning

• American Society for Microbiology
  • Cloning

• American Society for Reproductive Medicine
  • Cloning and Stem Cell Research

• American Society of Hematology
  • Statement on Nuclear Transfer and Human Reproductive Cloning
  • Statement in Support of All Avenues of Stem Cell Research
  • ASH Supports Both Adult and Embryonic Stem Cell Research

• American Thoracic Society
  • Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research [2006]

• Endocrine Society
  • Stem Cell Research [2005]

• National Academy of Sciences
  • Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research: Workshop Report [2007]
  • 2007 Amendments to the National Academies' Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research [2007]
  • Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research [2005]
  • Stem Cells at the National Academies

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Stem cell transplantation in adults: recommendations. Program in Evidence-based Care [2009]

• President's Council on Bioethics
  • White Paper: Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells [2005]
  • Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry [2002]
  • Stem Cells
  • Cloning

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • A dozen questions (and answers) on human cloning

Articles in journals

• Australian Family Physician
  • Stem cells - A clinical update [2006]

• BMC Medical Ethics
  • Human cloning laws, human dignity and the poverty of the policy making dialogue [2004]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Biomedicine and international human rights law: in search of a global consensus [2002]

• Development
  • A germ cell origin of embryonic stem cells? [2005]

• EMBO Reports
  • Stem-cell research: the state of the art [2005]

• Endocrine Reviews
  • The Production and Directed Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells [2006]

• Genes & Development
  • Cloning v. clowning [2002]

• Human Reproduction
  • Oocyte donation for stem cell research [2007]
  • Reproductive semi-cloning respecting biparental origin: Reconstitution of gametes for assisted reproduction [2003]
  • Human embryonic stem cells: research, ethics and policy [2003]

• Human Reproduction Update
  • Differences between human embryonic stem cell lines [2007]

• Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering
  • Culture systems for pluripotent stem cells [2005]

• Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Embryonic death and the creation of human embryonic stem cells [2004]

• Journal of Translational Medicine
  • Human embryonic stem cells: preclinical perspectives [2008]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Human embryonic stem cells leap the barrier [2007]

• Pediatrics
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cells [2004]

• Physiological Reviews
  • Embryonic Stem Cells: Prospects for Developmental Biology and Cell Therapy [2005]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Moving Human Embryonic Stem Cells from Legislature to Lab: Remaining Legal and Ethical Questions [2006]

• Reproduction
  • Primate models for assisted reproductive technologies [2004]
  • Derivation, growth and applications of human embryonic stem cells [2004]

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