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Therapeutic Cloning
(redirected from somatic cell nuclear transfer)

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therapeutic cloning
n.
A procedure in which damaged tissues or organs are repaired or replaced with genetically identical cells that originate from undifferentiated stem cells.
Therapeutic Cloning
Cloning in which the nucleus of a somatic—i.e., non-germinal/reproductive—cell is transferred into an egg from which the nucleus has been previously removed, in order generate an embryonic stem-cell line, which has the advantage of pluripotency—i.e., the ability to differentiate along multiple pathways except the reproductive pathway
therapeutic cloning
Molecular medicine The cloning of human cell lines to replace nonfunctional tissue. See Cloning.
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The guidelines exclude Federal funding for work with any potential stem cell lines derived from cloned human embryos using the procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer.
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Using a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the Oregon-based researchers successfully removed the genetic material from a monkey's egg cells.
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Tong quickly dismisses concerns about asking women to provide eggs for the cloning technique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)--a high-profile aspect of stem-cell research, but one that is still very much speculative.
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