Stem cell cloning race is on..

Big news back in May about the south Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk who claimed to have made stem cells tailored to match an individual.

Then big news again claiming that Hwang used the same picture for what was supposed to be different cells.

So now the race is on according to Gareth Cook from the Boston Globe.

And George Quentin Daley, MD, PhD, Associate Director, Stem Cell Program at Children's Hospital Boston is one of the main players.

Cloned stem cells are created by placing DNA from a patient into an egg cell that has had its nucleus removed. This is stimulated to grow and embryonic stem cells are harvested. Researchers can also get embryonic stem cells from frozen embryos, left over from fertility treatments, but cloned stem cells can be created with the DNA of patients who have diseases, giving scientists a new way to study how those diseases develop.

Read the article via Boston Globe here.

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