Researchers Report Creating Embryonic Stem Cells Without Eggs

Significant steps toward producing embryonic stem cells without using human eggs, and in some cases without creating embryos, were described last week by researchers in the journal Nature, in a development that could ease ethical concerns about such research.

The prospect of creating human embryonic stem cells containing a patient's own genetic information has produced great excitement, as well as investment in the research, as it has raised the possibility of using the cells to

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