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Safer Stem Cells?

A small California biotech company backed by billionaire John Tu claims to have created stem cells without destroying human embryos or introducing cancer-causing genes, in what could be a major step toward using these stem cells for human trials.

But the company provided almost no details of how its method worked, leading to skepticism among many scientists. Instead of publishing its method in a scientific journal, the company, PrimeGen Biotech of Irvine, Calif., released the news during a brief presentation at a stem cell industry conference in New York

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