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Cloned Human Embryos Announced

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  • If we can still believe scientific journals, Cell reports in the June 6, 2013 issue indicate that scientists have succeeded in cloning human embryos.

    The term used for cloning by the group is "reprogramming" fibroblasts using somatic cell nuclear transplantation. However, there's no longer an attempt by the authors or members of the scientific press to create a new "unfertilized blastocyst" or pre-embryo: the embryos are called embryos, morula, and blastocysts. In recognition that these are not quite the same as embryonic stem cells derived from embryos produced by direct fertilization, the stem cells derived from the cloned blastocysts are designated as


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