title: Human research cloning, embryos, and embryo-like artifacts.
abstract: Research suggests that cloning is incapable of producing a viable embryo when it is used on primate eggs. In fact, the entity created may not qualify as an embryo at all. If the results stand, cloning avoids the moral objections typically lodged against it, and cloning is itself an "alternative source" of stem cells.
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: Insoo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hyun
authors.forename: Kyu Won
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Jung
mesh_terms: D001755:Blastocyst; D019976:Cloning, Organism / Q000941:ethics; D033041:Embryo Research / Q000941:ethics; D053595:Embryonic Stem Cells; D032984:Ethics, Research; D006801:Humans; D053652:Nuclear Transfer Techniques / Q000941:ethics*