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Nature 414, 570 (6 December 2001) | doi:10.1038/414570a

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Cell biologist quits editorial board over cloning paper

Jonathan Knight

Stem-cell pioneer John Gearhart has resigned from the editorial board of the biomedical journal that last month published a controversial paper claiming the creation of the first cloned human embryos.Gearhart, a biologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, says that in agreeing to publish the work, the journal had failed to uphold scientific standards.