Sentences with phrase «embryos using somatic»

The group, led by Hwang Woo Suk at Seoul National University, cloned human embryos using somatic cell nuclear transfer, a process that biologists have used to clone live animals.

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If ESCR using «excess» embryos from IVE» continues, the next step will likely be the pursuit of such «therapeutic» cloning — the creation of embryos through somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to provide individually tailored stem cell therapies.

Embryos created through somatic cell nuclear transfer, which uses skin cells taken from the sick child, could also be used to test therapies.

Some scientists, such as Kevin Eggan at Harvard, were disappointed that NIH didn't open the door to the use of embryos created for research purposes — including through somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning) and parthenogenesis (from an unfertilized egg).

Stem cell researchers call them «a major step in the right direction,» although some were disappointed that NIH didn't open the door to the use of embryos created for research purposes — including through somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning) and parthenogenesis (from an unfertilized egg).

He reported in May 2013 using the Dolly technique, known more formally as somatic cell nuclear transfer, to derive stem cells from cloned human embryos, including from a baby with an inherited disorder.

Like Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT), the method used to clone Dolly in 1996, gameteless reproduction raises the question of the morality of cloning and other kinds of asexual reproduction, since it allows the creation of an embryo from one or more tissue donors.

He was also a Fulbright Scholar, and was part of the team that cloned the world's first human embryo, as well as the first to successfully generate stem cells from adults using somatic - cell nuclear transfer (therapeutic cloning).

By identifying these factors, it should be possible to induce pluripotency in somatic cells without using embryos or oocytes.