UCSF (University of California-San Francisco) comes out on embryo cloning work:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The University of California-San Francisco has become the first public institution in the US to confirm that it has been pursuing research on cloning embryos for therapeutic purposes. Embryologist Roger Pedersen led the UCSF project, which began three years ago but has been shelved under the Bush administration. (He left the US to work in Europe in the wake of Senate opposition to therapeutic cloning.) Biotechnology company ACT has also publicly confirmed that it has done research in this area. UCSF's admission is likely to fuel the ongoing US debate.