Stem Cells Created Through Human Cloning

healthnews.com — Technology and science may be on the cutting edge of creating stem cells through human cloning. Stemagen Corporation, based in La Jolla, California, claims that it used cloning technology to make five human embryos. This means that hope is on the horizon that they will be able to make matched stem cells for patients. Stemagen developed the embryos by using skin cells from two adult men who work at the IVF center. By using SCNT, or somatic cell nuclear transfer, Stemagen was able to hollow out an egg cell and inject the nucleus of a cell from the donor. This is the same process by which Dolly - the famous cloned sheep - was created in 1996. When the process was complete, scientists verified that the embryos were exact clones.

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