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Cloned Embryos
By Lynn | January 20, 2008
I have to quote this article that was in the Arizona Republic Sunday buried on page A18 in the Weekly Review section of health and science news.
Scientists at Stemagen, a California company, reported Thursday that they had created the first mature cloned human embryos from single skin cells taken from adults, a significant advance toward the goal of growing personalized stem cells for patients suffering from various diseases.
Creation of the embryos, grown from cells taken from the company’s chief executive and one of its investors, also offered sobering evidence that few, if any, technical barriers may remain to the creation of cloned babies.
Five of the new embryos grew in laboratory dishes to the stage that fertility doctors consider ready for transfer to a woman’s womb - a degree of development that clones of adult humans have never achieved before.
Is it just me, or does anyone else have a problem with this?
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