Position Statements by ISSCR and other Organizations

Upon release of the report on the first successful human nuclear transfer attempt by the South Korean team, excitement spiked. Several organizations, including ISSCR, emitted official statements supporting the work of the South Korean team and affirming their opposition to human reproductive cloning.

Read the statements by:  

• The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
  
  
• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), consisting of 22 scientific societies with more than 65,000 members, making it the largest coalition of biomedical research associations in the United States.   
  
        
• The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), an organization of more than 10,000 scientists in the United States and 44 other countries.
  
  
• The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), leading charitable funder and advocate of juvenile (type 1) diabetes research worldwide.

Updated: February 2, 2005