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Cloned human embryo makes working stem cells

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Researchers begin to identify past problems with cloning technique.

Scientists at the New York Stem Cell Foundation Laboratory have reprogrammed an adult human egg cell to an embryonic state using cloning technology and created a self-reproducing line of embryonic stem cells from the developing embryo. In so doing, they have managed a feat that has at times been thought impossible, then inevitable, then completed, then incomplete and unfeasible. Their work is published today in Nature1.

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  1. Noggle, S. et al. Nature 478, 70-75 (2011).

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Cyranoski, D. Cloned human embryo makes working stem cells. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.578

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