Source: USA Today
Date: November 13, 2007
Summary:
USA Today reports Oregon scientists have created embryonic stem cell lines from cloned monkey embryos:
"Scientists in Oregon have successfully cloned monkey embryos and used them to make two embryonic stem cell lines. It is the first time this has been accomplished in primates and brings the possibility of human stem cell lines one step closer to reality.
Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland removed the DNA from a rhesus macaque egg and replaced it with genetic material from a different macaque's skin cell. The two were fused with electricity. After five to seven days, this early-stage embryo was destroyed to harvest the stem cells."
