Monkey embryonic embyos cloned and stem cells produced
Corie Lok
Thursday, 15 November 2007 16:02 UTC
This Nature paper (and this companion piece) are making a lot of news today. Researchers in Oregon have derived stem cells from cloned monkey embryos.
According to this Nature News story, the efficiency wasn’t very high: 2 stem cell lines from 304 eggs. And the NY Times quotes Mitalipov, the senior author, saying that this technique could work in humans. Comments? Do you think this could work in humans or is this just hype?
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I read this book on Bioethics last year where one of the chapters was about the ethics in cloning and one of key ideas that the author wanted to pass on was the fact that cloning in monkeys was not even close to being possible, nevermind in humans!
Well, what was once thought as impossible is now a reality. Even if it is very inefficient.
So, as regards to humans I’d say that it is probable.
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