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Book 3, Unit 8 CLONING First Stem Cells Extracted from Cloned Human EmbryoPosted: 02.17.04 Scientists in South Korea have extracted stem cells from a cloned human embryo - a breakthrough that has potential for treating various diseases but also ignites fears that rogue scientists will use the technology to clone humans. Part I: Pre-Reading Task Other scientists have cloned small numbers of human embryos that lived for a short time, but the South Koreans who announced their work last week in the journal Science, apparently succeeded on a scale that far outstripped earlier human cloning effo