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Embryonic stem cells made without destroying embryos

Bob Lanza, scientific head of ACT, says he's generated three embryonic stem cell lines without destroying embryos - which would be proof of the concept he announced in principle he announced in 2006. The data hasn't been released yet, but Lanza made the statement at the stem cell conference in Australia. Read more in Nature's blog entry from that conference.

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