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Dates: during 2006-2006
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...Researchers at University of Connecticut may have done just that. A report released in Nature Genetics Sunday by Xiangzhong Yang and Tao Cheng showed that by using a specific type of fully mature adult cell, they could improve the chances that they would produce a cloned embryo. Yang's team relied on the same technique that was used to create both Dolly and Snuppy, but instead of starting with cells that are still capable of dividing - like the mammary cell that created Dolly and the skin cell that became Snuppy - they used blood cells near the end of their life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Older Cells Solve Cloning's Problems? | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

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