Sentences with phrase «because nuclear transfer»

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Pharming is interested in using a potentially more efficient method called nuclear transfer to clone cows, because the technique could speed the process of growing herds that reliably produce drugs in their milk.

But they still want to be able to do cloning, otherwise know as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), because embryonic cells are the «gold standard» for pluripotent cells — cells that can become any cell type in the body.

Tom Clements, southeastern nuclear campaign coordinator of Friends of the Earth, said the fuel in pool No. 4 was hotter than in the plant's other pools because it had more recently been transferred into the pool.

Successful nuclear transfer in dogs has been elusive until now because it is difficult to get egg cells to mature in the lab.

But the favored reprogramming technique, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), otherwise known as research cloning, is fraught with ethical pitfalls as well as technical difficulties because it entails creating a human embryo by inserting an adult cell nucleus into an ooctye.

Thus, liquid sodium is the coolant of choice in fast reactors because it can effectively transfer heat away from the nuclear fuel, while at the same time maximizing the number of fast neutrons.