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Ethical concerns over use of new cloning technique in humans
Nature

Stem cells

Human DAZL, DAZ and BOULE genes modulate primordial germ-celland haploid gamete formation
Nature
Scientists 'five years' from producing artificial spem and eggs
Times
Stem cell study leads to breakthrough in understanding infertility
Guardian
Epigenetic reversion of post-implantation epiblastto pluripotentembryonic stem cells
Nature
Behavioral improvement after transplantation of neural precursors from ESCsin to the globally ischemic brain of adolescent rats
Brain & Development

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Judge throws out stem cell lawsuit
Science Insider
California awards grants for researtch projects in nonembryonic stem cells
NY Times
California hands out $230 million to move stem cells into the clinic
The Great Beyond
Woo SukHwang convicted, but not of fraud
Nature News
No jail time for Hwang
The Scientist
South Korea stem cell scientist guilty of fraud
Reuters
$3.7M NIH grant will fund study on stem cells derived from ALS patients
Medical News Today

Ethics

Inducible pluripotentstem cells: not quite ready for prime time?
Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation
Mickie Bhatia: embryonic stem cellscome of age
Journal of Experimental Medicine
Pluripotent stem cell-derived gametes: truth and (potential) consequences
Cell Stem Cell

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