Human somatic cell nuclear transfer: A scientist's perspective

I-12: Nuclear Reprogramming in Bovin Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer

Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT or cloning) returns a differentiated cell to a totipotent status; a process termed nuclear reprogramming. Reproductive cloning has potential applications in both agriculture and biomedicine, but is limited by low efficiency. To understand the deficiencies of nuclear reprogramming, our research has focused on both candidate genes and global gene expression pat...

Human somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning).

Within 2 years of the announced birth in 1997 of Dolly, the lamb cloned from the mam-mary cells of an adult ewe, research groups announced that they had cloned mice and calves by using differentiated somatic cells (1– 3). In the cloning technique used to produce Dolly, the nucleus of a somatic cell of the ewe was transferred to a sheep oocyte from which the nucleus had been removed, and the cel...

CIRM - MRC Human Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Workshop Report

Human Embryonic Stem Cells Derived by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer

Reprogramming somatic cells into pluripotent embryonic stem cells (ESCs) by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) has been envisioned as an approach for generating patient-matched nuclear transfer (NT)-ESCs for studies of disease mechanisms and for developing specific therapies. Past attempts to produce human NT-ESCs have failed secondary to early embryonic arrest of SCNT embryos. Here, we ident...

Efficiency of Ovine Fibroblast or Cumulus Cells For Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer in Sheep

Purpose: Despite remarkable progresses have been achieved in the field of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), there is little information regarding the effect of donor cell type on the efficiency mammalian somatic cell cloning in vitro. This study compared in vitro developmental competency of sheep enucleated oocytes reconstructed with either fibroblast or cumulus cells. Material and methods...