Op-Ed: Australia: Cloning could come to an end

June 26, 2007

As Queensland MPs consider legalising cloning, they must take into account a new and entirely ethical method for obtaining the same “tailor-made” stem cells that cloning hopes to obtain. The journals Nature and Stem Cell on June 7 published three papers confirming a simple method of turning mouse skin cells into genuine “pluripotent” stem cells – the functional equivalent of embryonic stem cells. (Courier-Mail)