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There's no indication from my reading of the article that any of the embryos produced were ultimately viable, so I'm not sure the title is 'accurate' per se. So
by sarosh 19y ago
There's no indication from my reading of the article that any of the embryos produced were ultimately viable, so I'm not sure the title is 'accurate' per se. So far, this seems more like an effort by Mssr. Wood to get publicity for his company, Stemagen, of which he is CEO. Unless of course we have a very loose (strict?) definition of "clone"...
The actual paper [PDF] is at: http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/reprint/2007-0252v1.pdf http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/reprint/2007-0252v1.p...
Development of Human cloned Blastocyst Following Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) with Adult Fibroblasts by Andrew J. French, Cathrine A. Adams, Linda S. Anderson, John R. Kitchen, Marcus R. Hughes and Samuel H. Wood. DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2007-0252
My biology kung fu is very weak. Any biohackers care to offer more expert opinion as to whether this is a substantial/notable event?