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Animal-human clones don't work, U.S. company finds
Reuters ^ | 02-02-09 | By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

Posted on 02/02/2009 8:01:27 PM PST by Texas Eagle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who tried to use mouse, cow and rabbit eggs to make human clones said on Monday the effort failed to produce workable embryos but added that they showed human cloning should work in principle.

Mixing human and animal cells does not appear to program the egg properly, said Dr. Robert Lanza of Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: clone; clones; cloning
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To: ladyvet
Not bad. Let me try my hand at photo-shopping a human being with a beast of the field.


21 posted on 02/04/2009 5:00:29 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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