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Nature 410, 617 (5 April 2001) | doi:10.1038/35070744

Fears of cults and kooks push Congress towards cloning ban

Paul Smaglik

The United States is moving closer to outlawing human reproductive cloning after a dramatic congressional hearing drew attention to the prospect that attempts to clone a human are imminent.But despite agreement on Capitol Hill that such experiments should be banned, the means of achieving a ban remain elusive.