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Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Korean stem cell rout...
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On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

Mike Miller wrote:
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

Are you saying that the Korean chap claimed that he could create clones without using pre-existing embryos?


He claimed that he could make embryos by cloning, then extract stem cells:

http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/bgnews/2005/msg00123.html

And did they do the cloning by replaing the nucleus of a pre-existing embryo?


No, it's an egg cell (an oocyte), not an embryo, that would be used that way:

http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/library/research/res0003.htm

And it may be worth repeating that they were lying and they did not succeed in their research. SCNT has not been done successfully with human cells, nor with other primates nor with dogs.

Mike

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