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This diagram illustrates the cloning process of Dolly the sheep in 1996, showing how a nucleus from an adult Finn Dorset ewe was fused with an enucleated egg cell from a Scottish Blackface ewe, then implanted into a surrogate to produce Dolly. Dolly
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somatic cell nuclear transfer: References & Edit History

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  • David Stocum
    Professor of Biology and Director of the Indiana University Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine.

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Type Description Contributor Date
Corrected display issue. Mar 20, 2023
Corrected display issue. Mar 04, 2020
Add new Web site: The Embryo Project Encyclopedia - Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer in Mammals (1938-2013). Nov 16, 2016
Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Recent advancements in cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer. Nov 16, 2016
Updated information on the generation of embryonic stem cells from human embryos cloned using somatic cell nuclear transfer. May 16, 2013
New article added. Apr 13, 2009
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