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UK allows scientists to clone human embryos
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UK allows scientists to clone human embryos
www.chinaview.cn  2004-08-12 10:07:04

BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- British scientists say they have received permission to clone human embryos for medical research. Such license is believed to be the first to be granted in Europe.

In a procedure based on the same technique that created Dolly, the first cloned sheep, the scientists will create embryos as a source of stem cells to help develop new treatments for diabetes and degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

They will duplicate early-stage embryos and extract stem cells from them. The embryos will be destroyed before they are 14 days old and will never be allowed to develop beyond a cluster of cells the size of a pinhead.

Earlier this year, scientists in South Korea announced that they had produced the first human cloned embryos.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-08/12/content_1765098.htm

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