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therapeutic cloning

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therapeutic cloning
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(Medicine) (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) the permitted creation of cloned human tissues for surgical transplant
therapeutic cloning  (thr-pytk)
The production of embryonic stem cells for use in replacing or repairing damaged tissues or organs, achieved by transferring a diploid nucleus from a body cell into an egg whose nucleus has been removed. The stem cells are harvested from the blastocyst that develops from the egg, which, if implanted into a uterus, could produce a clone of the nucleus donor.
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Noun1.therapeutic cloning - nuclear transplantation of a patient's own cells to make an oocyte from which immune-compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be derived for transplant
biomedical cloning
cloning - a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell)
nuclear transplantation, SCNT, somatic cell nuclear transfer, somatic cell nuclear transplantation - moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another
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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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