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    human cloning has become a huge component of modern day society, it’s mainly being looked at as a way for human infertility problems to be solved through a process of somatic cell nuclear transfer. But is this process actually helping or benefiting the cloning of humans? The answer is simple, no. Somatic cell nuclear transfer is a technique for cloning in which the nucleus is removed from a healthy egg. This egg becomes the host for a nucleus that is transplanted from another cell, such as a skin cell

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    The second way to get hESCs is by man-created. One technology of man-creating hESCs is somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), commonly referred to as cloning. This technique is also used in therapeutic cloning, which creates hESCs to treat or cure a patient with the disease. Since the created hESC contains DNA that’s virtually identical to the existing patient, this could eliminate the significant problem of tissue rejection, which could be the “impediment to the clinical success of regenerative medicine

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    Therapeutic cloning, which is also known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), is a type of cloning that produces embryonic stem cells to use in replacing or repairing damaged tissues or organs. This type of cloning does not clone humans or any animals. How it works: The nucleus from an egg is extracted The nucleus of a somatic cell is extracted and is placed in the enucleated egg The egg is stimulated to begin dividing The egg begins to divide repeatedly to form a blastocyst The stem

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    of the methodologies used in the process of genetic cloning is called somatic cell nuclear transfer. This method of genetic cloning involves a body (somatic) and an egg (enucleated oocyte) cell to create an embryo. An example of a successful case of genetic cloning with using this methodology is Dolly the Sheep. There are four main steps that are used in this method. The first step in the somatic cell nuclear transfer is that a body (somatic) cell is removed from a donor. The nucleus is extracted from

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    Genetic Transfer Genetic Modification Scientists can now genetically modify cow genes to prevent them from producing specific genes that code for the production of BLG. RNA interference was used for this process, which is also known as RNAi. It is where RNA molecules inhibit certain gene expressions, stopping them from functioning by destroying mRNA molecules. Reproductive Cloning Somatic cell nuclear transfer is used for reproductive cloning. The cloned individual will have the same genetic material

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    Over the past decade, advances in the field of cloning have allowed for the possibility of human cloning. By using the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), in which the DNA from an adult cell is transferred into an unfertilized egg, scientists have developed the ability to clone numerous types of animals related to humans. Cloning has proven to be useful in several areas of science, improving scientists' understanding of the functions of genes and the cell cycle. In addition, scientists

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    The process of somatic cell nuclear transfer is one of the two methods existing to make a precise copy of an organism artificially in a lab (the other method is called Artificial Embryo Twinning). In order to perform a cloning, two different donors are required: the somatic cell donor (a) and the egg cell donor (b). The somatic cell donor is the one who will be cloned in the end of the process and it can be either a male or a female. The egg cell donor on the other hand, evidently, has to be female

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    In the article, “Monkey See, Monkey 2: Scientists Clone Monkeys Using Technique that Created Dolly the Sheep,” written by Jen Christensen of CNN, explains how scientists have cloned a monkey in China. The article described how using somatic cell transfer, the removing a nucleus from an unfertilized egg and replacing it with with a nucleus from another cell, which is then transplanted into a surrogated mother, scientists were capable of creating a clone of a primate. My position on this experiment

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    Unfortunately, his findings were false once he reviewed his work . If we continue human cloning, scientists hypothesize that somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) will be the way. SCNT begins when doctors take an egg from a female donor. Once they remove the nucleus, the create an enucleated egg. A DNA cell is taken from the human being cloned. Next, the enucleated fuses with the subject's

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    animal using this kind of process. Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) prevents the loss of animals and helps us to have more and more kind of animals. This technique has been hoping to contribute expansively to the farm animal handiwork industry and preservation of priceless genetic origin. It is usually applied in farm animals like cow and etc. Nuclear transfer can create a numerous number of copy of the very best farm animal. We still can identify the prototype and the cloned because of the differences

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