Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Human Cloning

Human cloning has been used to produce early embryos, marking a "significant step" for medicine, say US scientists. The cloned embryos were used as a source of stem cells, which can make new heart muscle, bone, brain tissue or any other type of cell in the body. The study, published in the journal Cell, used methods like those that produced Dolly the sheep in the UK.

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Embryonic stem cells: Advance in medical human cloning

















Source: BBC

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