Scientists can clone cells from tissues taken from dead people who donated their bodies for medical research. Much of it is frozen stored tissue, and cells can be viable for up to thirty years. UK, not US.
Scientists are to be permitted to use tissue from dead people to create cloned human stem cells for research, under a legal change put forward by the government (1st June 2008)
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