A biotech firm recently made news by claiming to have cloned human embryos in order to produce medically useful stem cells (SN: 12/1/01, p. 341: Human-cloning claim creates controversy). At the time, Advanced Cell Technology of Worcester, Mass., also reported trying–unsuccessfully–to derive such cells from unfertilized human eggs undergoing a process called parthenogenesis.
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