On the eve of a U.S. Senate vote that could ban similar experiments in people, scientists have successfully transplanted into cows miniature kidneys and other tissues generated through cloning. The experiments offer the most convincing indication yet that the controversial transplant strategy called therapeutic cloning can produce genetically matched cells that a person’s immune system won’t reject as foreign.
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