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Published online 21 September 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060918-10
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Naturally dead embryos yield stem cells
'Stalled' embryos could be new source of cell lines.
Researchers have succeeded in developing a human embryonic stem-cell line from an embryo that had died naturally.
The development may offer a non-problematic source of embryonic cells in countries such as Germany and the United States where the law does not allow the use of cell lines whose creation caused the destruction of embryos.
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