Source: Reuters
Posted: November 14, 2007 1:02pm ET
Summary:
Reuters reports researchers have derived stem cells from cloned monkey embryos:
"U.S. researchers have cloned monkeys and used the resulting embryos to get valued embryonic stem cells, an important step towards being able to do the same thing in humans, they reported on Wednesday. Shoukhrat Mitalipov and colleagues at Oregon Health & Science University said they used skin cells from monkeys to create cloned embryos, and then extracted embryonic stem cells from these days-old embryos."
