THERAPEUTIC CLONING

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 I. (noun) 

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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

Synonyms:

biomedical cloning; therapeutic cloning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("therapeutic cloning" is a kind of...):

cloning (a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell))

nuclear transplantation; SCNT; somatic cell nuclear transfer; somatic cell nuclear transplantation (moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another)

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