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Recycling the abnormal

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Using human eggs in the quest to make donor-specific embryonic stem cells is controversial. A method developed in mice, if applicable to humans, could eliminate the need to obtain eggs for this purpose.

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Figure 1: Somatic-cell nuclear transfer using abnormal embryos.

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  1. Alan Colman is at ES Cell International and the A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology, 11 Biopolis Way, 05-06 Helios, Singapore 138667. acolman@escellinternational.com,

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  2. Justine Burley is in the Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, CeLS 05-01, 28 Medical Drive, Singapore 117456.,

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Colman, A., Burley, J. Recycling the abnormal. Nature 447, 649–650 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/447649a

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