At Last: Cloning Accurately Depicted

This Bloomberg report about how Harvard and California’s Geron Corporation plan to try to accomplish what Woo-suk Hwang lied about doing: human cloning and extraction of embryonic stem cells. No surprise there. But what is refreshing is that the story reports accurately that human cloning creates a human embryo, which, when intended for use in research, is to be destroyed. From the story: “U.S. researchers at Harvard University and in California said they first will create ‘cloned’ human embryos in the lab by combining women donors’ egg cells with DNA provided by other adults. The scientists will then isolate and extract stem cells from the embryos.”

See, New York Times: It isn’t that hard.