November 23, 2007

Progress Toward Stem-Cell Therapy

By BIJAL TRIVEDI

For the first time, researchers have created cloned monkey embryos using a variation on the technique used to clone Dolly the sheep, and extracted embryonic stem cells. It is possible that a similar technique could be used to generate cells, matched to individual patients, that could replace diseased tissue.

The work was conducted by scientists at Oregon Health & Science University and published online by Nature last week.

Other researchers hailed the results. Previous

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