nuclear transfer

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nuclear transfer

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) the procedure used to produce the first cloned mammals, in which the nucleus of a somatic cell is transferred into an egg cell whose own nucleus has been removed: this cell is then stimulated by an electric shock to divide and form an embryo

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