Study Finds Cloned Stem Cells Safe: Results reassure those who worried lines created without fertilized embryo might go awry

Source: HealthDay News
Date: January 16, 2006

By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, Jan. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Stem cells taken from cloned embryos are likely to be safe when used for therapeutic purposes, a new study finds. Although the work, which appears online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was done in mice, there is hope the findings will translate to humans.