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Sixteen years after the amazingย creation of Dolly the cloned sheep, researchers have realised the dream of producing human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) using a similar cloning technique.
And this time, it looks as if the cells are genuine, not faked as they were in 2005 when aย South Korean team led by Woo Suk Hwang fraudulently claimed to have reached the same goal.
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The landmark achievement revives the hope of being able to generate new tissues using a patient’s own cells, eliminating the risk of immune rejection.
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