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According to the Guardian and the BBC scientists in American have sucessfully cloned and implanted a body organ (from the Guardian):
'Researchers in the US have fabricated and implanted primitive artificial kidneys using tissue from a cloned animal embryo, it was announced last night.
Scientists implanted the kidney units in the same animal, a cow, from which the tissue was cloned. The cloned units were not rejected by the cow's immune system, and mimicked the action of a real kidney - suggesting that one day, dreams of growing human kidneys for transplant, cloned from a patient's own cells, could become reality.
The work, led by the controversial private firm Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), throws down the gauntlet to Congress, which is about to debate a ban on all experiments with fertilised human embryos in the US. Such experiments were recently legalised in Britain.'
'Researchers in the US have fabricated and implanted primitive artificial kidneys using tissue from a cloned animal embryo, it was announced last night.
Scientists implanted the kidney units in the same animal, a cow, from which the tissue was cloned. The cloned units were not rejected by the cow's immune system, and mimicked the action of a real kidney - suggesting that one day, dreams of growing human kidneys for transplant, cloned from a patient's own cells, could become reality.
The work, led by the controversial private firm Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), throws down the gauntlet to Congress, which is about to debate a ban on all experiments with fertilised human embryos in the US. Such experiments were recently legalised in Britain.'