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Stemagen First to Create Cloned Human Embryos From Adult Cells.

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Major Advancement Towards Creating Patient-Specific and Disease-Specific Stem Cells For Therapeutic Use

LA JOLLA, Calif., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Stemagen, a privately held embryonic stem cell research company, announced today it has become the first in the world to create, and meticulously document, a cloned human embryo using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).

Stemagen CEO Samuel H. Wood, M.D., Ph.D., a co-author of the publication and a donor of the cells from which the embryos were cloned, terms this achievement "a critical milestone in the development of patient-specific embryonic stem cells for human therapeutic use, potentially including developing treatments for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other degenerative diseases." Stemagen's research is exhaustively detailed in a paper published in today's…

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