somatic cell nuclear transfer

How To Use somatic cell nuclear transfer In A Sentence

• The cell synthesized by somatic cell nuclear transfer, no less than the fertilized egg, is a human organism in its germinal stage.
• Somatic cell nuclear transfer works by inserting the genetic material from a patient's cell - usually from a skin cell - into an unfertilized egg from another person.
• Efforts to genetically modify large animals have been hindered by the fact that the two methods currently used to effect it, somatic cell nuclear transfer or pronuclear injection, are costly, inefficient, difficult, and carry a risk of producing abnormal offspring. Genetic modification of large animals just got easier
• The third step was to use a process known as Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer to generate an embryo.