"It doesn't have to be, you know, embryo stem-cell research or fetal or cloning, " Lott said.

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On Thursday a team of researchers at Newcastle University in the UK, which hopes to join South Korea in the forefront of stem cell research, also said they had successfully cloned an human embryo.

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