New Method may render Cloning a thing of the past

A Team of Norwegian scientists with the University of Oslo have together with a medical company named Nucleotech developed a method to reprogram ordinary cells to serve a different purpose than it was meant to serve.

This method may,if proven completely successful and permanent, render cloning unecessary,since this method enables scientists to create new cells without having to use stemcells to do so

This method is far from perfected yet,and needs to be researched more according to Researchers participating on the project..
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/01/science/01CELL.html