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 THERAPEUTIC CLONING

  • Therapeutic cloning produces embryonic stem cells aim to create tissues to replace injured or diseased tissues.

    • cloning specific human cells ,other tissues that do not and cannot lead to a human being

    •  They could also produce replacement skin, cartilage and bone tissue for burn and accident victims, and result in ways to regenerate retinal and spinal cord tissue.

    • Stem cell research will help scientists learn how to develop cells and tissue to cure disease.

    • New, healthy cells and tissue created for transplantation to replace damaged or dead tissue.

    • But one major problem with developing disease therapies with stem cells is the body's immune response system.

BASIC PRINCIPLE THERAUPETIC CLONING

  • Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) process is used.

  • First, a nucleus from an egg cell  is suck out

  • then take a somatic cell, which is any body cell other than an egg or sperm, and also extract the nucleus from this cell

  • The nucleus that is extracted from the somatic cell in the patient is then inserted into the egg, which had its nucleus previously removed

  • It is a procedure of substitution.

  •  The egg now contains the patient's genetic material, or instructions

  • It is stimulated to divide and shortly thereafter forms a cluster of cells known as a blastocyst

  •  The stem cells in the inner cell mass are isolated and then utilised to create embryonic stem cell lines,

  • The stem cell can be use ro develop into specific tissues

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