Reply #12: Whether or not their work pans out is one thing...

[JHB]

...but it's not just bullshit:

Chinese Researchers Make Cloned hESC’s in Rabbit Eggs
Saturday, 16 August 2003; Updated 17 Aug. 2003

A research group based in Shanghai, China, has succeeded to clone and isolate human ES cells using rabbit eggs as ‘carriers’. More than 100 of the hybrids, made by fusing human skin cells with rabbit eggs, were allowed to develop in laboratory dishes for several days before the scientists destroyed them to retrieve embryonic stem cells from their interiors. The researchers, led by Hui Zhen Sheng of Shanghai Second Medical University, describe the details of their work over the last several years in this week’s online edition of Cell Research. The Cell Research is a peer-reviewed bimonthly scientific journal affiliated with the Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology and supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The paper will appear in print later this month (Y. Chen et al. Cell Res. 13, 251–263; 2003).
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http://www.geocities.com/giantfideli/art/CellNEWS_China_MixedClone.html

Link to research paper:
http://www.cell-research.com/20034/2003-116/2003-4-05-ShengHZ.htm