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Principles and applications of electrical cell fusion

...his enucleated oocyte is then fused with a somatic cell (e.g. from connective tissue). This is carried out by using electrical cell fusion because it is the only method efficient enough to produce the desired result. The fusion product is implanted into a surrogate mother and i...

Principles and applications of electrical cell fusion

...his enucleated oocyte is then fused with a somatic cell (e.g. from connective tissue). This is carried out by using electrical cell fusion because it is the only method efficient enough to produce the desired result. The fusion product is implanted into a surrogate mother and i...

An Optimal DNA Microarray Substrate for the Identification of Fetal and Somatic Liver Stem Cells of the Rat

...arrays for the identification of fetal and somatic liver stem cells. The microarrays will be used for the examination of the differentiation status of these cells, which is influenced by certain factors of the extra-cellular microenvironment in vitro. The results are o...

RNA Interference and Gene Silencing: History and Overview

..."enhancer of glp-1 "), RNAi functions normally in somatic cells, but is defective in germline cells where ego-1 is primarily expressed. In Arabidopsis SDE-1 / SGS-2 mutants ("SGS" stands for suppressor of gene silencing), siRNAs are produced when dsRNA is introduced via an endoge...

The Genesis of Gendicine: The Story Behind the First Gene Therapy

.... Guidance for industry: Guidance for human somatic cell therapy and gene therapy. 1998 Mar 30....Health of China.Points to consider on human somatic cell therapy and gene therapy. Beijing: 1993 May 1. SDA China.Administration for drug ...

Glossary for The BioPharm Guide to Fermentation and Cell Culture

...m in place or sterilize in place (see CIP). somatic cell In higher organisms, a cell that (unlike ger...le in plants) and somatic cells (all of the other cells). It is the germ-line DNA that is altered in ...

Biologist who cloned Dolly the sheep believes therapeutic cloning will gain acceptance

...e science of that cloning technique, also known as somatic cell nuclear transfer, and its potential for biome...f embryonic stem cell research might bode well for somatic cell nuclear transfer, which has more public support in the UK than in the United States. To gain ...

Wisconsin Senate votes to outlaw cloning; measure still faces veto

...on of a fully human life. The immediate product of somatic cell nuclear transfer - the cloning process - is a human person, whether the intent is to bring that person to birth or to destroy that person for research." Others however, have argued that forbidding certain research methods will have a chilling e...