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Advanced Cell Technology
Boston researchers create human clone embryo, magazine reports
January 14th, 2004
Researchers at a small Boston area biotech company have created the most developed human clone embryo yet. The cloned embryo grew to at least 16 cells, a stage of development where it becomes useful for stem cell research, Wired magazine reports in its January issue. Writing for Wired magazine, Wendy Rohm Goodman witnessed the breakthrough experiment, which in pursuit of stem cells yielded both human clone embryos and human parthenotes, embryo-like balls of cells that have only one set of chromosomes. The company, Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), of Worcester, Massachusetts, has been involved with therapeutic cloning...
Source: Biotech Week (2004-01-14)
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