Nature Medicine
5, 975 - 977 (1999)
doi:10.1038/12404
Human therapeutic cloningRobert P. Lanza, Jose B. Cibelli
& Michael D. West
Senior Director, Tissue Engineering and Transplant Medicine Advanced Cell Technology One Innovation Drive Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
Correspondence should be addressed to Robert P. Lanza rlanza@advancedcell.comSomatic cell nuclear 'reprogramming' in livestock species is now routine in many laboratories. Here, Robert Lanza, Jose Cibelli and Michael West discuss how these techniques may soon be used to clone genetically matched cells and tissues for transplantation into patients suffering from a wide range of disorders that result from tissue loss or dysfunction.
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