title: Pluripotent stem cells from cloned human embryos: success at long last.
abstract: Recently in Cell, Mitalipov and colleagues report an advance that has eluded scientists for over a decade-the successful derivation of embryonic stem cell lines using somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT (Tachibana et al., 2013).
authors.affiliation: California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, 210 King Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. atrounson@cirm.ca.gov
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Trounson
authors.forename: Natalie D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: DeWitt
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D053595:Embryonic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D005260:Female; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000166:cytology*; D006801:Humans; D053652:Nuclear Transfer Techniques