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Applying Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer in the Creation of Dolly the Cloned Sheep.

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

The majority of nuclear transfers in animals don't take, or they produce fetuses that abort at high rates, or they deliver creatures misshapen and sick.

Not exact matches

In addition, the Energy Department has to approve the transfer of technology related to nuclear reactors and fuel.

First, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had to approve the transfer of two uranium recovery licenses in Wyoming from Uranium One to the Russian company.

The OAR proposal uses a variation of therapeutic cloning called altered nuclear transfer (ANT) in which the nucleus of a donor cell (a skin cell, for example), containing the 30,000 genes of the genetic code, is altered in such a way that it produces an epigenetic factor, a protein called nanog.

Prozac is not yet Huxley's soma; cloning by nuclear transfer or splitting embryos is not exactly Bokanovskification; MTV and virtual - reality parlors are not quite the «feelies»; and our current safe - and - consequenceless sexual practices are not universally as loveless or as empty as in the novel.

The licenses for the Nine Mile Point and Ginna nuclear power plants on Lake Ontario, along with two at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland, will be transferred from Constellation Energy to Exelon.

A $ 110 million agreement will transfer ownership and operation of the James FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego from Entergy Corp. to Exelon Generation, company and state officials announced on Tuesday.

But if a refugee has a nuclear family member in another EU country, they can transfer their asylum claim to that country.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Watchdog groups warned Tuesday that New York may be giving up too much by transferring $ 700 million from a public fund to Exelon Corp. as part of the deal to keep open the James A. FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County.

In the Commons debate today, Tory backbencher David Burrowes criticised the idea, which he said involved procedures which are cell nuclear transfer.

In somatic cell nuclear transfer, a nucleus from a mature body cell is transplanted into an egg cell without a nucleus.

But this type of cloning has little in common with somatic cell nuclear transfer.

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.

Roslin Bio-Med is the firm established to commercialize nuclear transfer, the method researchers at Roslin Institute used to clone Dolly the sheep in 1997.

In the final analysis, it seems clear that Geron is not going for the obvious play, pairing stem cells and nuclear transfer to pursue human clones.

Other researchers engaged in similar work note that it is unclear how much practical benefit Wilmut's technique will yield in the short term: it is very labor - intensive and it required 277 nuclear transfers to produce the single, viable cloned lamb.

Transfers of casks from operating reactors could follow, and the report authors said that would help resolve a long - running court dispute over payments nuclear plant operators are required to make to the federal government in return for federal storage of the spent fuel — a bargain the federal government has not kept.

The method, called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), replaces the DNA in an egg cell's nucleus with the genetic material from the nucleus of a skin cell, then tricks the egg cell to start dividing as if it had been fertilized with sperm.

In May 2013, Mitalipov was the first scientist in the world to demonstrate the successful use of somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT, to produce human embryonic stem cells from an individual's skin celIn May 2013, Mitalipov was the first scientist in the world to demonstrate the successful use of somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT, to produce human embryonic stem cells from an individual's skin celin the world to demonstrate the successful use of somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT, to produce human embryonic stem cells from an individual's skin cell.

Scientists understand relatively little about these on - and - off switches in normal cells, however, let alone the unusual reversal that takes place during nuclear transfer.

Scientists, with practice, have now been able to make nuclear transfer nearly routine to produce cattle, cats, mice, sheep, goats, pigs, and — as a Korean team announced in May — even human embryonic stem (ES) cells.

In fact, says Marburger, the majority of the lab's funding goes for work on the U.S. nuclear stockpile and won't be transferred to the new department.

However, this method raises the following problem: in every nuclear transfer, a small number of defective mitochondria are transferred into the healthy egg cell.

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).

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.

The NRC analysis found that a fire in a spent - fuel pool at an average nuclear reactor site would cause $ 125 billion in damages, while expedited transfer of spent fuel to dry casks could reduce radioactive releases from pool fires by 99 percent.

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.

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.

None came to term, but one lived 29 weeks in the womb, long enough to suggest that the procedure, known as nuclear transfer, is viable.

But PPL's Irina Polejaeva then added a second nuclear transfer to the cloning protocol: As soon as the transferred nucleus expanded, as it typically does, the PPL team removed that nucleus once again and placed it in another egg cell that had just been fertilized.

If it is implemented in major set ups such as nuclear plants, the system is capable of transferring a tremendous amount of heat which can be rechanneled as an additional source of energy.

Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua are the product of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the technique used to create Dolly the sheep over 20 years ago, in which researchers remove the nucleus from an egg cell and replace it with another nucleus from differentiated body cells.

The law banned human cloning, although after a review in 2005 the law was amended the next year to allow therapeutic cloning, or somatic cell nuclear transfer.

The first primate clones made by somatic cell nuclear transfer are two genetically identical long - tailed macaques born recently at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai.

The creator of Dolly the sheep has ended his focus on somatic cell nuclear transfer, or cloning, in favor of another approach to create stem cells

Using a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), a team from Oregon Health & Science University (O.H.S.U.) in Portland implanted the contents of individual skin cells from adult male rhesus macaques into each of 304 macaque egg cells stripped of their genetic material.

In addition to the defective potentialities here, we're also talking about only a very small fraction of the nuclear transfer units, the cloned embryos, actually will make it to term, so that we'll have a very high level of spontaneous abortion.

The thread to follow here is that the invention of nuclear transfer technology — the means to move genes between cells and also backward in time — started the countdown to human reproductive cloning.

But ANP engineers and management were mired in debate over reactor technologies, how best to transfer nuclear power to a conventional engine, and the best material to shield the crew from radiation.

«We envision highly enhanced NMR of liquids and solids using existing polarization transfer techniques, such as cross-polarization in solids and cross-relaxation in liquids, or direct dynamic nuclear polarization to outside nuclei from NV centers,» King says, noting that such transfer of polarization to solid surface and liquids had been previously demonstrated by the Pines group using laser polarized Xe - 129.

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.

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.

In addition to science, it oversees fossil, nuclear, and renewable energy research programs and electrical grid and technology transfer issues.

The new finding brings a measure of closure to a story that first rocked the science world in February 2004, when Hwang and colleagues at Seoul National University announced they had cloned a female donor's cell by transferring its nucleus into one of her egg cells stripped of its nucleus in a procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), and harvested embryonic stem cells from the resulting fusion.

A microscopic method for simulating quantum mechanical, nuclear tunneling effects in biological electron transfer reactions is presented and applied to several electron transfer steps in photosynthetic bacterial reaction centers.

The technique used by Wilmut and his co-workers — a technology called somatic - cell nuclear transfer — will probably be the way in which the first human clone will be created.

To try to find a definitive answer, scientists led by George Daley of Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, compared the genetic signatures of mouse ES cells made through nuclear transfer and those made from parthenogenetic embryos.

Dolly was created using nuclear transfer, a technique in which an intact donor cell is fused with an egg whose nucleus had been removed.