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News bites & rumors on human embryo genetic modification

April 30, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 8 Comments

A lot has happened in the week since the first human embryo genetic modification paper was published by a team led by Junjiu Huang. There have been a number of new events just in the last few days. Jocelyn Kaiser over at SCIENCEINSIDER has a new piece reporting a couple important developments including that the journal …

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The main challenges for SCNT cloning of human embryonic stem cells

April 21, 2014 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

It was intriguing last week to read about another advance in somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)-based therapeutic cloning of human embryonic stem cells (hESC). The first such work was published last year by Mitalipov’s group from OHSU. This second paper to produce so-called nuclear transfer hESC (NT-hESC) made the important advance to show that it could …

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