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Embryo clones of two men made using skin cells Classifieds Staff and wire reports Place an ad January 18, 2008 Find a job Find a car NEW YORK - Scientists in California say they have produced Article tools Find real estate embryos that are clones of two men, a potential step toward Find rental properties E-mail Shopping developing scientifically valuable stem cells. Share

Dating Print Pets The new report documents embryos made with ordinary skin Reprints cells, but it's not the first time human cloned embryos have been made. In 2005, for example, scientists in Britain reported using Post comment stem cells from an embryo to clone another embryo. It matured Text size: enough to produce stem cells, but none were extracted.

The California team did not produce stem cells from its new embryos, either, and because of that, experts reacted coolly to the research. Stem cells

from cloned embryos could provide a valuable tool for studying diseases, screening Weather drugs and, perhaps someday, creating transplant material to replace dysfunctional tissue that causes conditions like diabetes and Parkinson's disease, scientists say. Traffic "I found it difficult to determine what News Ads by Google was substantially new," said Doug Broward County Melton of the Harvard Stem Cell Palm Beach County Regional/Florida Institute. He said the "next big Cuba/Americas advance will be to create a human Nation/World embryonic stem cell line" from Help Team cloned embryos. "This has yet to be Elections achieved." Education Health & Science "This is not the final breakthrough," Take It Off Blogs said Dr. Juan Dominguez-Bendala, Columnists a stem cell researcher at the Corrections University of Miami Diabetes Multimedia Gallery Research Institute. "When we can Video produce stem cells through cloning that can be used to treat diseases, Opinion then we will have a major advance."

Sports The lead researcher in the California Business group, Andrew French, chief science officer of closely held Entertainment biotechnology company Stemagen Corp., said all the cloned embryos Take It Off were destroyed at the end of the experiment as part of the analysis. Features The group did not produce stem cells because they first wanted to Travel make sure they had cloned embryos, and had to destroy them in order to prove it, French said. Obituaries

Get Local Palm The Stemagen group in La Jolla is now attempting to produce cloned stem cells for Beach research and possibly medical treatment, French said. Other teams across the country are doing the same. Newspaper Services Get home delivery "It's only a matter of time before some group succeeds," said Dr. George Daley of the Subscriber services Harvard institute and Children's Hospital Boston. Work at Sun-Sentinel Advertise with us Buy photos Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk claimed a few years ago that he had created such cell Buy back issue lines, but that turned out to be a fraud. Contact us Sell Our Paper Dr. Samuel Wood, a co-author of the new paper and chief executive of Stemagen Corp. of La Jolla, Calif., said he and his colleagues are now attempting to produce stem cell Resources lines from the embryos. Recent Articles RSS feeds Mobile services The work was published online Thursday by the journal Stem Cells. Newsletters/Alerts Florida Lottery Scientists say stem cells from cloned embryos could provide a valuable tool for studying Find a restaurant diseases, screening drugs and, perhaps someday, creating transplant material to treat Movie times conditions like diabetes and Parkinson's disease. Horoscopes Calendar of events But critics raise objections. The process "involves creating human lives in the laboratory Webcam Site Map solely to destroy them for alleged benefit to others," said Richard Doerflinger, spokesman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Staff Writer Bob LaMendola contributed to this report, which includes information from The Associated Press and Bloomberg News.

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