A leading Vatican official on Friday condemned a US company’s announcement that it had created cloned human embryos from adult skin cells. The medical breakthrough could ultimately lead to the development of cures for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, and other untreatable ailments.

Gotta love that paragraph.  Totally unfounded, unproven claim.

“This study demonstrates, for the first time, that SCNT can be utilized to generate cloned human blastocysts using differentiated adult donor nuclei remodeled and reprogrammed by human oocytes,” the researchers wrote in the study, which appear Thursday in the online edition of the journal “Stem Cells.”

And, also,

A scientist has achieved a world first… by cloning himself.

In a breakthrough certain to provoke an ethical furore, Samuel Wood created embryo copies of himself by placing his skin cells in a woman’s egg.

The embryos were the first to be made from cells taken from adult humans.

Although they survived for only five days and were smaller than a pinhead, they are seen as a milestone in the quest for treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

The brave new world continues…

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