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nuclear transplantation

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nuclear transplantation,
the transfer of the nucleus of one cell into the cytoplasm of another.


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That bill actually allowed the human cloning procedure, calling it "nuclear transplantation," but banned two things: (1) "implanting or attempting to implant the product of nuclear transplantation into a uterus or the functional equivalent of a uterus"; and (2) maintaining such a cloned human embryo for "more than 14 days from its first cell division," not counting time spent in a freezer.
The new legislation, which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary chaired by Specter, would allow embryonic stem cell research' known as somatic cell nuclear transplantation, to proceed under strict oversight from the federal government.
In nuclear transplantation in animals, researchers place DNA from an existing animal inside an egg they've stripped of its own DNA.
 
 
 
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