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nuclear transfer - A technology by which novel animals are generated by cloning a single diploid somatic cell. It involves inserting a single diploid cell from a culture of cells into an enucleated ovum. The resultant diploid ovum develops into an embryo that is placed in a recipient female, which gives birth to the cloned animal in the normal manner. Note that the term is somewhat of a misnomer, since it is a whole cell that is transferred, not just the nucleus. [FAO]

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'Pak most likely to become next Al Qaeda stronghold'  -  21 Aug 2007
Economic Times,WASHINGTON: Several American foreign policy experts feel that Pakistan is most likely to become the next Al Qaeda stronghold. In a joint survey carried out

MSP urges nuclear transfer probe  -  Aug 5, 2007
Midloothian Today,Green Party leader Robin Harper has demanded an inquiry into roads being used to transport nuclear weapons. The Lothians MSP has written to the First

Korean Cloning Fraud Case Advances Stem Cell Research  -  Aug 2, 2007
Forbes,We've been trying to do that with nuclear transfer [cloning] and that hadn't worked," said study senior author Dr. George Q. Daley, associate director of

Discredited Korean Embryonic Stem Cells' True Origins Revealed  -  Aug 2, 2007
Science Daily (press release)In 2004, Korean investigators announced the creation of the world's first human embryonic stem cells through somatic cell nuclear transfer,

India’s fast breeder nuclear reactors and Australian uranium: an ...  -  Aug 16, 2007
On Line opinion,By Marko Beljac - posted Friday, 17 August 2007 Much has been said in recent times about the US-India nuclear transfer agreement and the export of

Korean Cloner Redeemed...Sort of  -  Aug 2, 2007
TIMEParthenogenesis is always a risk during nuclear transfer, since the process involves extensive manipulation of the egg and its nucleus.

Disgraced Stem Cell Scientist's Faked Research Actually A ...  -  Aug 3, 2007
AHNHwang had wrongly claimed that the stem cell line was created through nuclear transfer, a fraud that broke later, leading to his disgrace.

Clone a Human, Get $500000 says Aussie State Premier  -  Aug 20, 2007
Lifesite,...to undertake work we hope will result in the creation of the country's first stem-cell lines derived from somatic-cell nuclear transfer embryos.

The Second Act of Woo-Suk Hwang  -  Aug 3, 2007
Medgadget.com,In contrast, embryonic stem cells created through nuclear transfer show a consistent pattern of variation through all regions of the chromosome -- thus

Kazakhstan to buy stake in Westinghouse  -  Aug 13, 2007
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,By Bonnie Pfister The Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan is poised to purchase 10 percent of Westinghouse Electric Co. for $540 million, parent company

Shamed clone fraud scientist created world’s first ‘virgin birth ...  -  Aug 2, 2007
Times Online,Professor Hwang had claimed that his stem cells had been made by somatic cell nuclear transfer, the cloning process used to create Dolly the sheep.

Half-Million Dollar Prize Offered for Therapeutic Cloning  -  Aug 7, 2007
Wired NewsA five-year ban on somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) -- the best known method of therapeutic cloning, due in large part to mistaken results by Hwang

Disgraced Scientist Gets Redemptive Discovery  -  Aug 9, 2007
Harvard Crimson,Scadden said that this process of somatic nuclear transfer—essentially taking a nucleus from a skin cell, transferring it into an egg, and then prompting

Fresh Study Confirms Hwang Lied About Stem Cells  -  Aug 2, 2007
Chosun Ilbo,Daley¡¯s team said, ¡°The Koreans' first supposed nuclear transfer-derived stem cell line was actually derived from the woman's egg alone.

Stem cells derived from eggs alone - study  -  Aug 2, 2007
Independent Online,South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk falsely claimed to have been the first to clone a human embryo using a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer in

Disputed Korean Stem Cell Line Comes From An Unfertilized Egg And ...  -  Aug 6, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),ES cells generated by somatic nuclear transfer (ntES) are derived from embryos that are created when the nucleus of an egg is replaced by the nucleus from a

Fabricated stem cell line origin revealed  -  Aug 2, 2007
Scientist,..."What the study indicates is that, during the process of trying to do the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer, [Hwang and colleagues] failed to remove

New glaucoma treatment studied  -  Aug 7, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...full article Therapeutic cloning -- Therapeutic cloning (also known as somatic cell nuclear transfer, cell nuclear replacement, research cloning,

South Korean Embryonic Stem Cell Research Fraud Had Some Progress  -  Aug 6, 2007
LifeNews.com,..."We know now that the Koreans' first supposed nuclear transfer-derived stem cell line was actually derived from the woman's egg alone," George Q. Daley, MD,

Disgraced stem-cell researcher may have hit on virgin birth  -  Aug 3, 2007
Vancouver Province (subscription),..."We know with great certainty that the first supposed nuclear transfer line from the Koreans is a parthenogenetically derived line," Daley said in a

For Missouri, Stem Cell Measure Changes Little  -  Aug 9, 2007
New York Times,...focusing their attention narrowly on one element of the research, known as therapeutic cloning or somatic cell nuclear transfer, in which the nucleus of

Fateful decision day for Howard  -  Aug 6, 2007
Daily Telegraph,Like all areas of advanced research, the work of refining the intricate techniques of somatic cell nuclear transfer - the transfer of nucleic material from

South Korean stem-cell breakthrough was another kind of achievement  -  Aug 3, 2007
Kansas City Star,...his colleagues at Seoul National University said they had created the world’s first stem-cell line using a cloning process known as nuclear transfer.

'Something different' made during fake find  -  Aug 3, 2007
Independent Online,..."We now know that the Korean's first supposed nuclear transfer-derived stem cell line was actually derived from the woman's egg alone," said Daley.

Revisiting the South Korean Stem-Cell Claim  -  Aug 2, 2007
NPRThe news reopens the contentious debate over somatic-cell nuclear transfer, which is sometimes referred to as therapeutic cloning.

Korean Cloned Human Cells Were Product of "Virgin Birth"  -  Aug 2, 2007
Scientific American...stripped of its nucleus in a procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), and harvested embryonic stem cells from the resulting fusion.

Unwitting stem cell discovery by discredited scientist  -  Aug 14, 2007
PHG Foundation,...that some of the cells actually derived from human eggs stimulated to undergo parthenogenesis, not somatic cell nuclear transfer as Hwang had claimed.

DISABILITY ACTIVISTS SINK ASSISTED SUICIDE IN CALIFORNIA  -  Aug 7, 2007
Australasian Bioethics Information,..."I think this is every bit as exciting as the somatic cell nuclear transfer they were claiming," said Kent Vrana of Pennsylvania State University.

Research fraud obscured stem cell breakthrough  -  Aug 3, 2007
Ars Technica,...removing its genetic material, and replacing it with the genetic material of an adult (a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT).

Charity Concerns Over Inter-Species Embryos  -  Aug 3, 2007
ChristianToday,...“The idea that one can move seamlessly from animal-human hybrids, created by cell nuclear transfer, to pure hybrids created by mixing human sperm and an

Fowler's Health And Science Updates  -  Aug 2, 2007
KTVU.com,He said he did it with a cloning technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer, a tricky process in which a nucleus is inserted into a cell.

CARE concern over proposed bioethics legislation  -  Aug 1, 2007
Inspire Magazine,The idea that one can move seamlessly from animal-human hybrids, created by cell nuclear transfer, to pure hybrids created by mixing human sperm and an

Harvard Embyro Cloning 'Tragic'  -  Jul 30, 2007
The Conservative Voice,HSCI and Children's Hospital have been cleared to begin experiments using somatic cell nuclear transfer to create disease-specific stem cell lines in

Missouri is Ground Zero for Stem-Cell Research  -  Jul 26, 2007
CitizenLink,..."The deceptively worded amendment was designed to trick Missourians into enshrining a right to human cloning — often called somatic cell nuclear transfer

Stem Cell Research Conference October 15-16 At The Rockefeller ...  -  Jul 24, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),...followed by a special address by R. Alta Charo and presentations on Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT), the most advanced hESC technique.

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