Crunch time for Korea's cloners

In Feb 2004, a research team in Seoul Korea announced that it had obtained embryonic stem cells from a cloned human embryo, providing a proof of principle for therapeutic cloning. Ethics questions are surrounding the research, relating to the recruitment of the women who donated eggs for the project...

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Published inNature (London) Vol. 429; no. 6987; pp. 12 - 14
Main Author Cyranoski, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group 06.05.2004
Subjects
Biomedical research
Cloning
Embryos
Human subjects
Medical ethics
Stem cells
South Korea
Seoul South Korea
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Summary:In Feb 2004, a research team in Seoul Korea announced that it had obtained embryonic stem cells from a cloned human embryo, providing a proof of principle for therapeutic cloning. Ethics questions are surrounding the research, relating to the recruitment of the women who donated eggs for the project and whether guidelines designed to protect their rights were correctly applied.
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ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/429012a