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They used induced pluripotent skin cells, or iPS cells — cells that have been reprogrammed to look and act like embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cells, taken from days-old embryos, have the power to morph into any cell type and, in mice, can be implanted into a mother’s womb to create living mouse pups.

Their experiment, published in Nature, means that it is theoretically possible to clone someone using ordinary connective tissue cells found on the person’s skin, but the experts were quick to distance themselves from such controversy.

“We are confident that tremendous good can come from demonstrating the versatility of reprogrammed cells in mice, and this research will be used to … understand the root causes of disease and lead to viable treatments and cures of human afflictions,” said Fanyi Zeng of the Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

“It would not be ethical to attempt to use iPS cells in human reproduction. It is important for science to have ethical boundaries,” she said, adding that their study was “in no way meant as a first step in that direction.”

No one has ever cloned a human being and while many stem cell experiments in mice have been replicated in humans, not all have.

Led by Qi Zhou at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’s State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, the team created iPS cells, using mouse fibroblasts, which are cells found in connective tissue in the skin.

Stem cells are the body’s master cells, giving rise to all the tissues, organs and blood. Embryonic stem cells are considered the most powerful kind of stem cells as they have the potential to give rise to any type of tissue.

But they are difficult to make and require the use of an embryo or cloning technology. Many people also object to using human embryonic stem cells and many countries limit funding for such experiments.

From the skin cells, the Chinese scientists created 37 stem cell lines, and of these, three generated live births.

“One line can generate such competent mice that the longest living one we have is nine months,” Zeng told Reuters.

“It has generated now more than 100 of second-generation (mice) and more than 100 third-generation (mice). It really demonstrates how fertile and strong the system is.”

The Chinese experiment generated questions and caution from other stem cell researchers not connected to the study.

“These investigators have, for the first time, unequivocally demonstrated that the iPS lines they have generated are truly pluripotent,” wrote Andrew Laslett, group leader of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Technology at the Australian Stem Cell Center in Melbourne, Australia.

Pluripotent is a term meaning the cells can give rise to all the tissues in the body.

“Moreover, the long-term stability of both the iPS cell lines and the long-term health of the mice generated using this procedure are yet to be reported. It will be interesting to see whether mice generated in this fashion have a higher propensity for tumor formation,” Laslett wrote.

They said younger adults — those aged 35 to 45 years old — have experienced the steepest declines in cancer death rates, but all age groups have shown some improvement.

“Essentially, the younger you are, the faster your rates are declining,” said Dr. Eric Kort of the Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, whose study appears in the journal Cancer Research.

The study uses a different way of looking at cancer death rates that measures improvements in cancer deaths by age.

U.S. government estimates suggest there had been little improvement in cancer death rates throughout the 20th century, with rates only beginning to improve in the mid-1990s, Kort said. But that does not tell the whole story, he said.

“The way that these statistics are traditionally reported is they have averaged all of the age groups together to get a composite rate,” Kort said in a telephone interview.

“The problem with that is because most cancer deaths occur in older Americans, the average heavily emphasizes the experiences of older people. It’s like watching the caboose of the train to tell when the train is changing direction,” he said.

Instead, Kort’s team looked at improvements in cancer deaths among groups of individuals born in five-year intervals starting in 1925.

Using that method, Kort said, “Everyone born since the 1930s has enjoyed a decreased risk of cancer death, at every age.”

People in the youngest age group — those aged 35 to 45 — had a greater than 25 percent decline per decade in cancer deaths, he said.

Kort said cancer prevention — including smoking cessation efforts — have played an important role in these trends.

“We’re also benefiting in profound ways from progress we’re making in early detection and better treatments. Some of these advances benefit younger people first,” he said.

In childhood cancers, advances in treatments for leukemia and lymphoma mean many more people can survive cancers that were once considered a death sentence.

And better screening for cancers that occur in older age, such as mammography in breast cancer and colonoscopy for colon cancer are spotting cancers at an earlier stage, when they are easier to treat.

Cancer remains the No. 2 killer of Americans, with about 560,000 deaths annually, topped only by heart disease, according to the American Cancer Society.