Friday, May 20, 2005

Human embryo cloned for first time in Britain

From Yahoo! News (Thanks Drudge Report)


Scientists at Newcastle University, the first in Britain to obtain a licence to carry out therapeutic cloning for stem cell research, said they had successfully produced a blastocyst -- a tiny, early-stage embryo consisting of a hollow ball of cells -- cloned from a human cell using nuclear transfer.

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