HUMAN EMBRYOS CLONED FROM SKIN CELLS, 2008, “No other scientific group has documented the cloning of an adult human cell, much less been able to grow it to the blastocyst stage, the stage at which it is the adult donor cell that is driving embryonic development, the stage that yields the cells (the inner cell mass) from which embryonic stem cell lines are made,” said French” (Stemagen’s Chief Scientific Officer).