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"Dolly" Cloner to Create Embryos for Research

Brian Vastag

JAMA. 2003;290:449-450.

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The United Kingdom (UK) has granted a license to Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland, to create human embryos for stem cell research via parthenogenesis, a "virgin birth" technique that jolts oocytes into a fertilized state without sperm. The license also allows the institute—former home of Dolly the sheep, which died in February—and its lead cloning researcher, Ian Wilmut, PhD, to derive stem cells from embryos created for in vitro fertilization (IVF) .

These nonhuman primate eggs have developed into 8-day-old embryos via a process called parthenogenesis (Science. 2002;295:819) (Photo credit: AAAS)

It is the fourth license for embryonic stem cell research handed out by the government of the United Kingdom, but the first license allowing the creation of human embryos by any means.

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Speaking at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md, Wilmut said that he supports research on all types of stem . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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