Sentences with phrase «nuclear transfer experiments»

The 14 - judge panel ruled that the term «human embryo» in the European Patent Directive covers «any human ovum after fertilization» as well as the product of a nuclear transfer experiment or a parthenote — an unfertilized egg that is prompted to start dividing.

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These cloning experiments (known as somatic cell nuclear transfer), in addition to being unambiguously nonpresidential, require a rare and precious starting material: healthy human egg cells.

While Gurdon's tadpoles did not survive to grow into adult frogs, his experiment showed that the process of specialization in animal cells was reversible, and his technique of nuclear transfer paved the way for later cloning successes.

The experiment that led to the cloning of Dolly the sheep in 1997 was different: It used a cloning technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer and resulted in an animal that was a genetic twin — although delayed in time — of an adult sheep.