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    Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is a method of human cloning that involves removing the nucleus from a host egg cell and replacing it with the nucleus from a donor somatic cell, usually a skin or mammary gland cell. The donor cell nucleus is fused with the egg cell using electric current, and the new fused cell can then grow as an embryo in a surrogate mother or artificially. This SCNT process was used to successfully clone Dolly the sheep in 1996.

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    Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is a method of human cloning that involves removing the nucleus from a host egg cell and replacing it with the nucleus from a donor somatic cell, usually a skin or mammary gland cell. The donor cell nucleus is fused with the egg cell using electric current, and the new fused cell can then grow as an embryo in a surrogate mother or artificially. This SCNT process was used to successfully clone Dolly the sheep in 1996.

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    Methods of Human Cloning: Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer

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    Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is a method of human cloning that involves removing the nucleus from a host egg cell and replacing it with the nucleus from a donor somatic cell, usually a skin or mammary gland cell. The donor cell nucleus is fused with the egg cell using electric current, and the new fused cell can then grow as an embryo in a surrogate mother or artificially. This SCNT process was used to successfully clone Dolly the sheep in 1996.

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    Methods of Human

    Cloning
    SOMATIC
    TRANSFER :

    CELL

    NUCLEAR

    In SCNT, the nucleus of a somatic cell is


    taken from a donor and transplanted into
    a host egg cell, which has its own genetic
    material removed previously, making it
    an enucleated cell. After the donor
    somatic
    cell
    genetic
    material
    is
    transferred into the host oocyte with a
    micropipette, the somatic cell genetic
    material is fused with the egg using an
    electric current. Once the two cells have
    fused, the new cell can be permitted to
    grow in a surrogate or artificially. This is
    the process that was used to successfully
    clone Dolly the sheep.

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