Human embryonic stem cells have at last been generated by a technique called somatic-cell nuclear transfer. Further research on such cells should provide insight into ways of improving the generation of stem cells by reprogramming.
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Mummery, C., Roelen, B. Cloning human embryos. Nature 498, 174–175 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/498174a
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