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January 17, 2008 | | Comments 0

Scientists make human embryo clones

Scientists in California say they have produced embryos that are clones of two men, a potential step toward developing scientifically valuable stem cells. The cloning approach involves inserting DNA from a person into an egg, and then growing the egg into an embryo about five days old before extracting the stem cells. At that stage, the embryo is a sphere of about 150 cells.

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