Sentences with phrase «somatic cell transfer»

In somatic cell transfer, the nucleus of an egg is replaced with the nucleus from another cell that contains the full genetic information of an individual.

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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.

DeGette's confusion about somatic cell nuclear transfer dovetails nicely with one of Levin's earlier points.

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

Over 20 species of mammals have been cloned via somatic cell nuclear transfer — including cats, dogs, rats and even a camel (SN: 3/23/02, p. 189).

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

TWICE THE FUN Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, the first primates successfully cloned via somatic cell nuclear transfer, are healthy, playful and, so far, completely normal for baby macaques.

DOUBLE TROUBLE Cloned macaque sisters Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, the first primates successfully cloned via somatic cell nuclear transfer, are just 8 and 7 weeks old, respectively.

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

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 cell.

Subsequent procedures included mammalian somatic cell nuclear transfer, cell fusion, induction of pluripotency by ectopic gene expression, and direct reprogramming.

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).

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.

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.

Then somatic cell nuclear transfer generated pig embryos carrying this genetic alteration.

Zhong Zhong (left) and Hua Hua (right), the first two monkeys created by somatic cell nuclear transfer.

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.

Australian researchers have so far generated over 50 embryonic stem cell lines from surplus embryos, and three research groups have been licensed to attempt somatic cell nuclear transfer.

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.

Dolly made history as the first animal to be cloned from an adult cell using a technique known as somatic - cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).

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 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.

Of the 29 early embryos created by somatic - cell nuclear transfer and implanted into various ewes by Roslin researchers, only one, Dolly, survived, suggesting that the technique currently has a high rate of embryonic and fetal loss.

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.

What somatic - cell nuclear transfer technology produces are cloned human embryos.

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.

Opponents said that the measure should have banned somatic cell nuclear transfer; it criminalized only the «implantation» of an embryo into a woman to create a human clone.

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.

One way to create such cells is through somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), in which the nucleus of a patient's cell is inserted into an egg cell from which most of the DNA has been removed (ScienceNOW, 19 June).

This is the mechanism underlying normal fertilization, as well as the cloning technique called Somatic - Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT).

Dolly was cloned using the technique of «somatic cell nuclear transfer,» when a nucleus from an adult cell is transferred into an unfertilized egg that has had its nucleus removed, and is then shocked with electricity to start cell growth.

Animal cloning uses a process known as somatic - cell nuclear transfer, where the nucleus from an adult (donor) cell is transferred into an egg (host) cell lacking a nucleus.

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.

Human embryos have been manufactured via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)-- the same process as that which

«The authors also addressed the same questions about mtDNA segregation after somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).

Comparisons of genetically matched human pluripotent stem cells reveals that somatic cell nuclear transfer is the ideal means of generating cells for replacement therapy

Prior to the advent of iPSCs in 2007 the only method researchers may have had to produce a genetically matched stem cell line from a patient's own cells was Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT), i.e., cloncell line from a patient's own cells was Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT), i.e., clonCell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT), i.e., cloning.

There are lessons that we can learn from somatic cell nuclear transfer where the somatic cell brings accompanying mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) into the egg.

But it turns out that a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) can sometimes reactivate genes.

The second method used somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning techniques) to exchange all the mtDNA from the patient's cells with normal mtDNA from an egg donor in order to derive embryonic stem cells that are patient - specific with respect to nuclear DNA, but «rescued» with respect to mtDNA.

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).

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

They included cloning (somatic cell nuclear transfer, accomplished in many placental mammals), stem cell gametogenesis (has been done in mice), direct engineering of early stage embryos (has been done in several mammals), embryonic stem cell editing, and primordial germ cell (PGC) editing.

Dolly the sheep was cloned through somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).