Harvard Scientists Want to Clone Embryos
Posted on: Thursday, 14 October 2004, 06:00 CDT
Harvard University scientists have asked the school for permission to clone human embryos to create stem cells for medical research.
If approved, they would be the first researchers at a U.S. university to attempt the procedure, USA Today said Thursday.
Dr. Doug Nelton, a molecular embryologist, and his colleagues at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute said they hope to create stem cells for use in studying juvenile diabetes and diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Another group at the Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital, working on blood diseases such as leukemia, also plans to attempt the creation of stem cell lines from cloned human embryos but has not yet applied for permission.
A U.S.-based company, Advanced Cell Technology, announced it had created the first cloned human embryo in late 2001, but the effort was seen as only partially successful.
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