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Hybrid Embryo Ban Is Defeated in Britain
Sue Wu submitted, created time 6 months 1 week (www.timesonline.co.uk)
The House of Commons has defeated a bill that would have banned the creation of so-called hybrid embryos—part human and part animal—for medical research. That means scientists who obtain proper licenses will be allowed to create hybrid embryos by transferring DNA from human cells into animal eggs that have had most of their genetic information removed. The embryos would then be grown in a laboratory and their stem cells would be harvested for up to 14 days, after which they would be destroyed 
Part human, part cow embryos made in UK
Sue Wu submitted, created time 8 months 3 hours (www.telegraph.co.uk)
This is not a joke from April Fool's Day; it's real!
But it seems to come with some ethical problems.
Scientists at Newcastle University have created Britain’s first human-animal hybrid embryos for research by transferring the DNA from a human cell into a cow’s egg whose nucleus had been removed, it emerged on Tuesday night. 


Scientists create artificial sperm cells
Eric wu submitted, created time 10 months 13 hours (blogs.usatoday.com)
A breakthrough news I have seen on Tencent.com in China. Here is the English version I have found on internet. 


Next steps in human cloning: cloned blastocysts
Darkfrog submitted, created time 10 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
A team in California claims to have performed in truth what disgraced Seoul U. researcher Woo Suk Hwang had faked: Stegeman company of La Jolla CA claims the creation of a cloned blastocyst from which a tailored cell line can be made. They started with an adult patient's own cells, in this case, a man's fibroblasts.
The article doesn't explicitly say, but since this is a blastocyst, I am assuming that it went through a totipotent state. The pro-life crowd would consider this morally objectionable 


Disgraced cloner Woo Suk Hwang attempts a comeback
jane2007 submitted, created time 11 months 1 week (www.nature.com)
In January 2006, Woo Suk Hwang’s apparent breakthrough articles announcing the first cloned human embryonic stem cells were shown to be fabrications. It was the biggest scientific scandal in recent history, and one might have thought his scientific career was over.But on 17 December an official said that Hwang had applied for a new licence for this type of work. Work continues to be published under Hwang's name.The Korean science ministry is expected to make a decision on the application by April 2008. 
"Virgin" birth stem cells may offer tissue bank
Eric wu submitted, created time 11 months 1 week (www.reuters.com)
Human egg cells can be tweaked to give rise to valued stem cells that match the tissue types of many different groups of people, U.S. and Russian researchers reported on Wednesday. They said the stem cells they have created from unfertilized human eggs look and act like embryonic stem cells. 
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