Cloned human embryos could help cure diseases

SCIENTISTS in South Korea have become the first to successfully clone a human embryo and extract from it master stem cells that may hold the key to creating cures for diabetes, Parkinson's and other diseases.

This is not cloning to make babies, but to create medicine.

It's almost guaranteed to revive international controversy over whether to ban all human cloning, as the Bush administration in the US wants, or to allow this "therapeutic cloning" that might eventually let patients grow their own replacement tissue.