‘Stem Cell Hub’ Cloning Network Project Folding

San Francisco Chronicle

November 15, 2005

A global consortium designed to pursue a controversial type of stem cell research involving cloned embryos is collapsing amid ethical questions surrounding human egg donations in South Korea.

Pacific Fertility Center, an in-vitro fertilization clinic in San Francisco that was planning to be part of the consortium, said Monday it was pulling out after the withdrawal Friday of the South Korea-based cloning network’s primary U.S. organizer, Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

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