By nature.com Communities Team on 07 Oct 2011
Stem cells The Spoonful of Medicine Blog this week reported that researchers in New York have succeeded where the disgraced South Korean Hwang Woo-suk failed. They have successfully derived the world’s first stem cells from a cloned human embryo. But, notably, the new stem cells are not suitable for therapeutic use because they contain three sets of chromosomes, instead of the regular two: In work published today in Nature, a team led by Dieter Egli at the New York Stem Cell Foundation took skin cells from healthy and diabetic volunteers and inserted the cells’ nuclei into unfertilized human eggs. Within … Read more
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