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Sydney company licensed to clone human embryos

Sep 17 03:40pm

(ABC) A Sydney company has been granted the first Australian licences to create cloned human embryos to obtain stem cells.

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has issued the licences to Sydney IVF.

The company is allowed to derive human embryonic stem cell lines from embryos using clinically unusable human eggs.

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