Crossing a milestone mired in controversy
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28/11/2001
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Hindu (New Delhi)
Human therapeutic cloning can produced by two methods. In parthenogenesis egg cell is activated without being fertilized by a sperm cell. The activated stem cells are differentiated into the type of tissue. the other method is cell nuclear transfer or cloning to form pre implantation embryos. In this instance, human egg cells are prepared by removing their DNA and adding the DNA from a human somatic (body) cell.