'Cloning' makes human stem cell

Link to the original paper (or abstract, for those of us who lack access): <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v478/n7367/full/nature10397.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v478/n7367/full/nature1...</a>

Can you imagine the ruckus if he had actually implanted this embryo? Wow. Up till now human cloning was impossible.<p>Would be especially interesting for a woman to do this to her own eggs since the chromosome mixing would not change anything in that case.<p>Someone tell me if I've misunderstood this.

This is huge. Recollected pluripotent cells can only be reproduced and divided a very limited number of times with the techniques we know so far (it used to be ~2x). A big problem was that only a very small amount of stem cells usable for treatment can be collected from ,say, like a placenta.

quick, let's get some of jobs skin cells! on a more serious note: I wonder whether the state of the skin cells matter - eg. would this work on conserved/dead skin cells as well?