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Human cloning Cell paper under investigation: some perspectives

May 22, 2013 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

Is it really deja vu all over again with allegations of potential wrongdoing in a paper on human cloning? “Say it isn’t so!”, is basically the universal reaction I’m getting from people in the stem cell field. Well, sadly it seems to be so folks. What’s going on? Allegations have emerged on a website called …

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Human cloning successfully makes embryonic stem cells

May 15, 2013 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 11 Comments

For the first time ever, scientists have successfully used somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) via the process of therapeutic human cloning to generate normal human embryonic stem cells (hESC). Recall that there are two kinds of human cloning: therapeutic (which is reported in the new paper discussed in this post) and reproductive, which is making …

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