Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Date: June 19, 2007
Summary:
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports scientists have derived stem cells from clone primate embryos, an advance at could eventually enable human therapeutic cloning for stem cell treatments:
"US scientists say they have for the first time created stem cells from cloned primate embryos, bringing human therapeutic cloning one step closer. The announcement was made by Dr Shoukhrat Mitalipov, from the Oregon National Primate Research Centre in Portland, at the International Society for Stem Cell Research meeting in Cairns this week. Australian stem cell expert Professor Alan Trounson, who was at the meeting, says the development means that human therapeutic cloning is a step closer to reality."
