koreans klone kells

Scientists in South Korea claim to have cloned a batch of human embryos! Although this same group alledgedly cooked up some clones a while back, "the process appeared to be hopelessly inefficient, requiring almost 250 human eggs extracted from female donors to get just one cloned embryo with its precious cache of stem cells."

The big deal now is that they now only need an average of 17 eggs on average to make one precious cache. These batches "have the capacity to develop into any type of tissue". Link to full Washington Post article.