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I went to the snapper mail site but the site was all I got. Note: Diane sent me at least 10 different posts on Hwang's accidental parthenogenesis Rayilyn Brown Board Member AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nina P. Brown" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 5:50 AM Subject: Re: Virgin Birth of cells > ___ > Sent with SnapperMail > www.snappermail.com > > ...... Original Message ....... > On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 21:41:17 -0700 "rayilynlee" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> SCIENCE NEWS >>August 02, 2007 >>Korean Cloned Human Cells Were Product of "Virgin Birth" >>Fraudulent cloned cells were likely the first example of a human egg >>turned >>directly into stem cells >>By JR Minkel >> >>ORIGIN OF KOREAN CLONED CELLS: Hoo Suk Hwang, the South Korean researcher >>who fraudulently claimed to have created cells from cloned human embryos, >>may in fact have stumbled onto the first stem cells made directly from > human >>eggs. >>Researchers say they have confirmed suspicions that embryonic stem cells >>claimed to be extracted from the first cloned human embryo by discredited >>South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang actually owe their existence to >>parthenogenesis, a process in which egg cells give rise to embryos without >>being fertilized by sperm. >>A series of genetic markers sprinkled throughout the cells' chromosomes > show >>the same pattern found in parthenogenetic mice as opposed to cloned mice, >>according to a report published online today in the journal Cell Stem >>Cell. >> >>The result suggests that, although Hwang deceived the world about >>achieving >>the first human cloning, his group was first to succeed in performing >>human >>parthenogenesis, which may offer a way of creating cells that are >>genetically matched to a woman for transplantation back into her body to >>treat degenerative diseases. >>"I think this is an extremely important-and solid-paper," says stem cell >>researcher Robert Lanza, vice president of research and scientific >>development at Applied Cell Technology, a regenerative medicine company >>headquartered in Alameda, Calif., who did not take part in the study. "It >>conclusively proves that the stem cell line in question was not cloned as >>claimed, but rather was generated through parthenogenesis." >>The result follows on the heels of an announcement last month by another >>California stem cell company, International Stem Cell Corporation (ISC) in >>Oceanside, that it had successfully achieved human parthenogenesis for the >>first time. Last year, Italian researchers claimed to have achieved the >>same >>feat but have yet to publish their results. >>"The fact that this has now been achieved by two independent groups gives > me >>a far greater degree of confidence," Lanza says. >>The new finding brings a measure of closure to a story that first rocked > the >>science world in February 2004, when Hwang and colleagues at Seoul >>National >>University announced they had cloned a female donor's cell by transferring >>its nucleus into one of her egg cells stripped of its nucleus in a > procedure >>known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), and harvested embryonic >>stem >>cells from the resulting fusion. They published the result the next month > in >>Science. >> >>FIRST (DELIBERATE) HUMAN PARTHENOTE: In late June, a California company >>published the first report of cells derived from human eggs stimulated to >>grow into embryos. >>Rayilyn Brown >>Board Member AZNPF >>Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation >>[log in to unmask] >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] >>In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn