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Therapeutic Cloning

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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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Burt carefully avoided any mention of so-called therapeutic cloning or the fact that both therapeutic and reproductive cloning use the same techniquesomatic cell nuclear transfer or SCNT (which the National Institutes of Health has called "the scientific term for cloning")to produce a new human organism.
MCCL Rebuts University Charge, Calls on Stem Cell Institute to Cease ... by National Right to Life News
The Edinburgh University professor, said the new technique was "easier to accept socially" than therapeutic cloning.
Doc rules out human cloning by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
The small margin of victory could be owing to deceptive ads placed by the measure's supporters, which claimed that the amendment bans "human cloning" The only difference between the two types of cloning is that in human cloning, the embryo is implanted in the uterus, and in therapeutic cloning, it is not.
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