Korean Researchers Claim to have Cloned Pig Stem Cells

Researchers at gene scientist Hwang Woo-suk’s Sooam Biotech Research Center in Korea are claiming they are the first to create cloned pig embryos and use them to make embryonic stem-cell lines, the Korea Times reports. Scientists have successfully extracted stem cells from cloned primate embryos, as described in a study on monkeys published in 2007 [Sign in to read the full article...]