July 5, 2002

Stalling of Cloning Vote in Senate Leaves Researchers Wondering

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

For weeks, academic researchers and patient advocates had anxiously anticipated what they expected would be a definitive vote in the U.S. Senate on the cloning of human cells for medical research. But when the time arrived, the result was stalemate and the prospect of continuing skirmishes.

A resolution was stymied last month, when lawmakers failed to agree on a parliamentary procedure under which the Senate would consider two bills, one that would allow cloning for research and

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