Somatic cell nuclear transfer

Without closely analyzing the book “Frankenstein” many tend to believe that Victor would be a huge part of our advanced research in stem cells and cloning because that was the basis of his work. But they tend not to look at the outcome, just as Victor did when creating the monster. Hungry for knowledge Victor was just like many modern scientists: experimental, curious and bias. A monster was created with two wretched hearts; a baby will be created with two beautiful blue eyes. A monster was…

Dystopian texts often present an exaggerated vision of the world that is vastly different to reality, mostly as the consequence of certain human responses and actions in the past or current society, thus adding to the shocking aspects of the text. Literature of the dystopia genre also challenge preconceptions about the world and the human identity, thus provoking further contemplation about what it means to be human. Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian novel Never Let Me Go (2005) demonstrates that…

Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, was the first to inform this process to the public. He let media watch his researchers edit the human embryos using a new machine called the CRISPR/Cas9. This machine allows researchers to cut DNA precisely. Stem cell biologist, Chad Cowan thinks that these experiments are secretly being done in US, China, and other countries. The United Kingdom has already given approval to one of the institutes in London to carry out these experiments. Chad Cowan…

obtained from another cell. Cloning has come a very long way since then: from Briggs and King in 1952, when they tried (and failed) to clone a frog, all the way to now, with human cloning (as you can see it in any good science fiction film) on the horizon. The exciting thing is…

shouldn't be done. (I;I) Let me begin by pointing out the most obvious example of playing god; Dolly the sheep aka genetic engineering. Dolly was the first successful mammal cloned, yes cloned, from an adult somatic cell using the process of nuclear transfer. (D,I, cc I) Nuclear transfer is when you replace the DNA in a oocyte and inject the nucleus with the DNA to be cloned. When the news of Dolly the cloned sheep got out to the public it struck immediate controversy whether…

In 1996 Dolly the sheep was born. However, she was not born like most other sheep. Instead, Dolly was cloned from the DNA of an adult sheep. Although Dolly seemed healthy, she died in 2003 after being diagnosed with a progressive lung disease. Dolly was the only sheep out of 277 attempts that made it to a live birth. Would it be safe to take that chance when experimenting with cloning human babies? Some people seem to believe so, and agree with the idea of cloning to have a child. These people…

Somewhere within a lab, Ian Wilmut lead a team of scientists to create the world’s first animal from a somatic cell. And from that revolutionary discovery, scientists use this way to artificially produce living creatures that even today are being used. Dolly the sheep died many years ago and many have wondered about the ethics of cloning an animal, whether or not Dolly’s “sister clones” were actually genetic matches and whether cloning is a bad way of producing a living creature and shouldn’t be…

using the somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) in the world. The sheep was created by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and their colleagues at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is the first cloned animal to be reproduced from mature reproductive cells using the nuclear transfer method. Cloning became the most significant milestone for modern biotechnology. The technique was invented in the late 20th century but has developed strongly since then. The birth of Dolly has shown that a cell…

extracted DNA, then was inserted into frog egg cells for the dinosaurs to be reproduced. To prevent any…

Second, I will give an overview of nuclear somatic transfer and it’s relation to cloning using animals as an example. Third, I will use the cloned sheep Dolly as the foundation of mammals that went…