Commentary on human cloning

Differentiation

Volumn 69, Issue 4-5, 2002, Pages 154-157

  Byrne, James A ^a   Gurdon, John B ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ELECTROFUSION (CELL); ENUCLEATION; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CLONING; INFERTILITY; MAMMAL; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SOMATIC CELL; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLONING; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTOR; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOETHICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLONING, ORGANISM; HUMANS; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RISK FACTORS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0036369679     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: 14320436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-0436.2002.690404.x     Document Type: Note

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