Year in Review: Caffeine triggers cloning advance
Human embryonic stem cells copied successfully
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CELL MAKER Using a tiny needle and guided by a laser, researchers extract the DNA from a human egg. It’s the first step in a cloning procedure developed to create human embryonic stem cells.
Courtesy of M. Tachibana