Technical advances and pitfalls on the way to human cloning

Differentiation

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-9

  Mollard, Richard ^a   Denham, Mark ^a   Trounson, Alan ^a  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Embryonic stem cells; Human cloning; Methylation; Mitochondria; Somatic nuclear transfer; Telomere

Indexed keywords

CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFER; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA TRANSFER; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVOUS TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METHYLATION; REVIEW; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; EDITORIAL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; CLONING, ORGANISM; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OOCYTES; TELOMERE;

EID: 0036516868     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-0436.2002.700101.x     Document Type: Editorial

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