Word: transferable
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Rosenthal voiced the ACS's opposition to the bill in a letter to the Senate on Feb. 9. The letter emphasized the potential of medical research using somatic cell nuclear transfer...
Rosenthal said cell transfer research is essential to understanding basic illnesses...
While the Senate opposes the cloning of human beings, it is divided on other uses of somatic cell nuclear transfer...
...Senate is now considering legislation proposed by Feinstein and Kennedy that would allow somatic cell nuclear transfer but prohibit any attempts to actually raise human clones for 10 years...
Cloning individual human cells, however, is another matter. Biologists are already talking about harnessing for medical purposes the technique that produced the sheep called Dolly. They might, for example, obtain healthy cells from a patient with leukemia or a burn victim and then transfer the nucleus of each cell into an unfertilized egg from which the nucleus has been removed. Coddled in culture dishes, these embryonic clones--each genetically identical to the patient from which the nuclei came--would begin to divide...