Cloning by present methods is very inefficient owing to the extraordinary demands placed on the oocyte cytoplasm in reprogramming a somatic nucleus rather than a sperm nucleus. The cumulative loss ...

Inc. has announced publication of its research on human somatic cell nuclear transfer and parthenogenesis. The report, published in today’s Journal of Regenerative Medicine, provides the first ...

In this slide show showing somatic cell nuclear transfer, as it's also known, we explain how we clone egg cells to create embryonic stem cells in our lab at Children's Hospital Boston. Unless ...

For decades, donated eggs or sperm have been the mainstay of infertility treatments, leaving many hopeful parents without a ...

have shown that nuclear-transfer embryonic stem cells can be derived from mouse cumulus or fibroblast cells and that these cells can be coaxed into becoming somatic cells such as myogenic cells ...

And it all began with Dolly the sheep: she was cloned in 1996 using a method called somatic cell nuclear transfer. It works this way: you take a cell from an adult sheep. You take an egg from ...

The main technique the scientists used to produce the cloned rhesus monkey, which they named "Retro", is called "somatic cell nuclear transfer". Don't let the jargon put you off. "Somatic cell ...

The cloning era began when Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996. Dolly was cloned via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). This is accomplished by removing the nucleus from a skin or other ...

Study confirms that somatic cell nuclear transfer, an alternate method of creating patient-specific pluripotent stem cells, can be used to reprogram adult cells. Mice have been cloned from single ...

Nuclear-transfer embryonic stem cells that carry ... They went on to show that the stem cell lines could differentiate into somatic cells of the ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm lineages ...

In principle, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is a potent tool for scientists looking to produce exact genetic replicas of a particular animal. By injecting a nucleus from an adult cell into ...