Sentences with phrase «using nuclear transfer»

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

He'd never been able to get an adult frog by using nuclear transfer from an adult cell donor.

Townes says he and Jaenisch initially collaborated on a project that used nuclear transfer to make corrected stem cells, a process called therapeutic cloning.

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Asked whether Iran could use its existing agreements with Pyongyang to advance its own nuclear - weapons program, Pompeo called it «a real risk» and admitted that the CIA could miss such transfers of information.

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.

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.

Ironically enough, the issue of «nuclear security» should be viewed as a consequence of the failure of the existing nuclear regime, proven to be incapable of controlling either the illicit transfer of nuclear technology or preventing the military use of nuclear material intended for peaceful purposes.

The ban treaty, if it is adopted, will most likely be made up of a relatively short text declaring the use, possession, and transfer of nuclear weapons unlawful.

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

Although Ghana has no military use of its nuclear assets, options for scientific research into modern nuclear propelled submarine and aircraft carrier ships, design and development of same technology and its transfer from partner OECD for its military use are imminent.

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.

«Advanced Cell Technology has the ability to produce transgenic animals using fetal fibroblast nuclear transfer,» claims Steve Parkinson, president and chief executive officer.

Nuclear transfer — used to clone Dolly and now owned by Geron — may help scientists develop more potent stem - cell therapies

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.

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).

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.

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).

«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 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.

Enriched uranium oxide is formed into rods and water is used both as a coolant, flowing through the reactor core to transfer heat away, and as a moderator, slowing down neutrons released by fission so that they promote further nuclear reactions.

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 get around that problem, some researchers have tried nuclear transfer using a human cell and egg cells from rabbits or cows to produce so - called cytoplasmic hybrids, or cybrids.

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.

Since Dolly, several university laboratories and companies have used various modifications of the nuclear transfer technique to produce cloned mammals, including cows, pigs, monkeys, mice and Noah.

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.

Lanza's research focuses on the use of stem cells and regenerative medicine including nuclear transfer and stem cells in human transplantation.

A major focus in Gierasch's lab has been how protein folding occurs within the cell, using transferred nuclear Overhauser effect, or trNOE, methods to show how chaperone proteins recognize the folded state of a protein substrate.

Outline title: «First live birth using human oocytes reconstituted by spindle nuclear transfer for mitochondrial DNA mutation causing Leigh syndrome» by J. Zhang et al. published in outline form by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine's Fertility and Sterility journal website.

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).

Under terms of the contract, as amended in 1996, United States Enrichment Corporation (i) purchased the enrichment portion of the blended - down material and sold it to its electric utility customers for use in fabricating fuel for their commercial nuclear power plants, and (ii) transferred to TENEX a quantity of natural uranium equal to the natural uranium component of the low enriched uranium.

To whip up a human clone, doctors would most likely use a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer — the same technique they've used successfully with animals like Dolly, the famous (and now departed) sheep clone.

Our improved IVM culture conditions may be used for obtaining mature oocytes for clinical purposes and / or for derivation of embryonic stem cells following parthenogenesis or nuclear transfer.

Unlike the current generation of light - water nuclear reactors, PRISM uses metallic fuel, such as an alloy of zirconium, uranium, and plutonium, and PRISM's fuel rods sit in a bath of a liquid metal — sodium — at atmospheric pressure, which ensures that the transfer of heat from the metal fuel to the liquid sodium coolant is extremely efficient.

Resonant microwave radiation can then be used to transfer this polarization to surrounding nuclear spins.

The single - gene knockout fibroblasts were successfully used for somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) and resulted in live - born goats harboring biallelic mutations.

Scientists in China successfully cloned the first - ever primates using the same method that created the world's most famous sheep — a method called somatic cell nuclear transfer.

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.

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