The result «brings nearer the human benefits from
nuclear transfer work,» says Ron James, managing director of PPL.
Not exact matches
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.
That breakthrough was one of a six - year chain of discoveries that included his 2007
work demonstrating the
nuclear transfer method to create embryonic stem cells from a nonhuman primate.
Several studies have shown that enzymes that remove those methyl groups are crucial for
nuclear transfer to
work.
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.
«PRISM has the potential to offer an attractive solution to the disposition of civil plutonium and we look forward to
working with GEH as they progress with their proposals to deploy PRISM in the U.K.» The
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has contracted GEH to carry out feasibility
work in a number of key areas including the proposed commercial structure, disposability of the fuel, risk
transfer model, costs and licensability of GEH's PRISM offering