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Article: Stem cells: starting over?(choose cell lines for stem cell therapies)(Editorial)
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- The Hastings Center Report
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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The January-February issue of the Report was supposed to include one more article. What appeared was a set of short essays on the state of stem cell science and a feature article on how to choose cell lines for stem cell therapies in a way that is fair to African-Americans and other minority populations. We had also planned an article on the implications of recent work on primate cloning, including the seemingly groundbreaking work on human cloning led by Woo Suk Hwang at Seotd National University in South Korea. The authors of that article, Insoo Hyun and Kyu Won Jung, had collaborated with Hwang during his launch of the World Stem Cell Hub, the library of stem cell lines ...