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In an amazing advance, scientists at Advanced Cell Technology reported this week in The Lancet that they used embryonic stem cells to restore partial vision to 2 patients who were legally blind.
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Less successful was the cloning of the gaur, a species of ox found in south Asia, by researchers at Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech company in Worcester, Massachusetts: the clone died of infection days after birth.
ECONOMIST: Endangered species
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In 2001, a gaur nicknamed Noah, a Southeast Asian threatened ox, was successfully created in the womb of Bessie, a cow, by scientists using a nuclear transfer process at Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusetts.
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