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To the Editor: Altered nuclear transfer is a procedure that has been proposed as a morally acceptable means of procuring human embryonic stem cells.¹ In their Perspective article, Melton et al. (Dec. 30 issue)² appear to misunderstand, and therefore prematurely dismiss, the promising possibilities of this proposal.

The proposal for altered nuclear transfer, which was developed in wide consultation with leading scientists, moral philosophers, and religious authorities, represents a "third option" — a technological solution to the current moral impasse regarding the destruction of human embryos to obtain embryonic stem cells.

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