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Published online 28 May 2008 | Nature 453, 577 (2008) | doi:10.1038/453577c
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Japan to allow limited human embryonic cloning
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Why should we ask for eggs when we have a Nobel Prize-"winning" egg-free technical to get iPS cells that are "indistinguishable" from ES cells??????? ----- //// Japan has a National Project for massively producing iPS cells that are "indistinguishable" from ES cells. Why should it have another "national project" of cloning human embryos from eggs????? Shi V. Liu (SVL@logibio.com; http://im1.biz; http://blog.sina.com.cn/im1)