Scientists produce live mice from stem cells

Two teams of Chinese scientists have made a major advance using mice in the development of a new kind of stem cell that doesn't involve destroying embryos. Those cells are derived from ordinary skin cells, and when they were created two years ago from human skin and genetically reprogrammed, it was hailed as a breakthrough. But questions remained as to whether they could act as chameleon-like as embryonic stem cells and morph into any cell type in the body. Washington Times