Website of the Week

National Academy Press, Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning (2002), http://books.nap.edu/books/0309076374/html/index.html

This recently released report is an unedited, prepublication edition available in full text at the National Academy Press website. The authors--members of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy and the National Research Council Board on Life Sciences--conclude that human reproductive cloning should be banned.

The Committee (COSEPUP) is responsible for several other publications of interest, including:

• Implementing the Government Performance and Results Act for Research: Status Report, 2001, http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10106.html.
• Science and Technology in the National Interest: The Presidential Appointment Process, 2001, http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9973.html.

The National Academy Press website offers dozens of full-text books online. Interesting titles include:

• Broadband:  Bringing Home the Bits, 2002, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10235.html.
• Compensating for Wetland Losses under the Clean Water Act, 2001, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10134.html.
• Environmental Issues in Pacific Northwest Forest Management, 2000, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/4983.html. 
• Firepower in the Lab: Automation in the Fight Against Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism, 2001, http://www.nap.edu/books/0309068495/html/index.html. 
• Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine, 2002, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10195.html.
• Trust in Cyberspace, 1999, http://www.nap.edu/books/0309065585/html/index.html.