Tuesday, 25 September 2007

What metabolically happens when an egg fuses with the nucleus of a somatic cell

In stem cell biology, it is recognized that embryonic stem cells are transcriptionally inactive for the first 3 days of development. However, during somatic cell nuclear transfer, the nucleus is likely to include various polymerases and RNA both coding and non-coding. Does this affect the success rates of cloning?

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