Cloning: Scientists make insulin-producing cells

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Cloning: Scientists make insulin-producing cells

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/cloning-scientists-insulin-producing-cells-155903945.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/DZXcu9lXn9mDLaAAlDKMJw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/US-AFPRelax/shutterstock_13.847f4173306.original.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Cloning: Scientists make insulin-producing cells" align="left" title="Cloning: Scientists make insulin-producing cells" border="0" /></a>Scientists said Monday they had used cloning technology to make embryonic stem cells that carry a diabetic woman's genes, and turned them into insulin-producing beta cells that may one day cure her disease. Egli and a team had transplanted the nuclei of cells taken from the woman's skin into human eggs to create stem cells, which they could then coax into becoming beta cells -- a shortage of which causes insulin deficiency and high blood-sugar in diabetics. It was not the first study to create stem cells in this way, but it was the first to use cells sourced from a diseased adult person with the aim of producing therapy-specific cells. Insoo Hyun, a bioethicist from the Case Western Reserve University's school of medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, said the research, the latest to produce embryonic stem cells that carry the genomes of living people, raised red flags.</p><br clear="all"/>

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