Scientists Move Closer to Human Therapeutic Cloning 136
"Human therapeutic cloning has moved a step closer after U.S. researchers said they had successfully created embryonic stem cells from monkey embryos. Scientists told a stem cell research conference in Cairns this week that they had successfully created two batches of embryonic stem cells from cloned rhesus monkey embryos."
Keep in mind (Score:5, Informative)
Cell workings differ slightly between species. Different proteins may be present, etc.
Let's get serious, (Score:4, Informative)
Granted, most of these links are preliminary- check those deep databases, like over at PubMed Central, for those detailed reviews of the state of the art. And just for kicks, one last link [bioinformatics.org] which (still) impresses me.