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FIRST PATIENT SPECIFIC STEM CELLS, 2013. "It was hailed some 15 years ago as the great hope for a biomedical revolution: the use of cloning techniques to create perfectly matched tissues that would someday cure ailments ranging from diabetes to Parkinson’s disease. Mitalipov and his team have finally created patient-specific ESCs through cloning." http://lnkd.in/d3CYAwb View in LinkedIn

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). View in LinkedIn

"FIRST HUMAN HYBRID HUMAN CLONE was created in November 1998, by American Cell Technologies. It was created from a man's leg cell, and a cow's egg whose DNA was removed. It was destroyed after 12 days ... according to ACT: "[ACT's] aim was 'therapeutic cloning' not 'reproductive cloning'." http://www.innovateus.net/content/what-human-cloning View in LinkedIn

COURT RULES 'FRAUD AND HOAX'. "In 1978 David Rorvik made the startling claim that the world's first human clone had been born ... He was a respected writer who had worked as a medical reporter for both Time and the New York Times ... He laid out the full story of the clone in a book titled In His Image: The Cloning of a Man, published by J.B. Lippincott Company," http://lnkd.in/dDUXrWV View in LinkedIn

1996: DOLLY WAS START OF CLONING. "The first hybrid human clone was created in November 1998, by Advanced Cell Technology. It was created using SCNT - a nucleus was taken from a man's leg cell and inserted into a (denucleated) cow's egg ... and the hybrid cell was cultured, and developed into an embryo. The embryo was destroyed after 12 days." http://lnkd.in/dXWf2pk View in LinkedIn

SOMATIC-CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER (SCNT) "is a laboratory technique for creating a clone embryo with a donor somatic nucleus ... It can be used in embryonic stem cell research ... in regenerative medicine where it is sometimes referred to as "therapeutic cloning". It can also be used as the first step in the process of reproductive cloning." http://lnkd.in/dsWWRQb View in LinkedIn

STEM CELL RETRACTION. "Haruko Obokata, the Japanese scientist at the centre of a controversy over studies purporting to turn mature cells to stem cells simply by bathing them in acid ... today apologized for her errors in the work. She insisted that the “stimulus-triggered activation pluripotency” ... exists." http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/04/acid-bath-stem-cell-scientist-apologizes-and-appeals.html View in LinkedIn

DEFINITION OF HUMAN CLONING "is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning, which is the reproduction of human cells and tissue, and is not in medical practice anywhere in the world. It does not refer to the natural conception and delivery of identical twins." http://lnkd.in/dXWf2pk View in LinkedIn

FAKE CLONING CLAIMS. "Hwang Woo-suk, a disgraced cloning expert from South Korea who had claimed major breakthroughs in stem-cell research, was convicted Monday of falsifying his papers and embezzling government research funds." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/world/asia/27clone.html?ref=hwangwoosuk View in LinkedIn

KOREAN CLONING FACILITY. "Ten years ago, Woo Suk Hwang rose to the top of his field before fraud and dodgy bioethical practices derailed his career. Hwang opened Sooam in July 2006. He has since cloned hundreds of animals — dogs, cows, pigs and coyotes. They have joined forces to try to clone a mammoth from ancient tissue dug from permafrost." http://lnkd.in/dg6_kYA View in LinkedIn