| NOUN | act | biomedical cloning, 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 |
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| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonym | therapeutic cloning | |
| Broader | cloning | A general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell) |
| somatic cell nuclear transplantation, somatic cell nuclear transfer, SCNT, nuclear transplantation | Moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another | |
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