Word: transferable
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...this point, Wilmut and his colleagues switched to a mainstream cloning technique known as nuclear transfer. First they removed the nucleus of an unfertilized egg, or oocyte, while leaving the surrounding cytoplasm intact. Then they placed the egg next to the nucleus of a quiescent donor cell and applied gentle pulses of electricity. These pulses prompted the egg to accept the new nucleus--and all the DNA it contained--as though it were its own. They also triggered a burst of biochemical activity, jump-starting the process of cell division. A week later, the embryo that had already started growing...
Harvard's strength should be on the defensive end. Co-captain Daphne Clark, junior Holly Rogers, junior Keren Gudeman and senior Chris Shortsleeve are all back, and junior Boston College transfer Claudia Asano and freshman Annie Johnson will factor in as well...
...Fund sued Baldini's, an Italian restaurant chain, contesting the transfer of a special permit allowing the company to open a fast-food restaurant on the Harvard Student Agencies property on Mt. Auburn Street. During the suit, Baldini's dropped its effort, though the Defense Fund maintains the two events were unconnected...
...breakthrough, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, comes just a week after scientists stunned the world by cloning an adult mammal and further demonstrates science fiction's uncanny knack for becoming reality. In the experiment, a chicken was made to act like a quail by transferring certain brain cells from a quail embryo to the brain of a chicken embryo. Once hatched, the chicken's movement's resembled those of a quail. "It turns out there's a part of the quail's brain that I can transfer into a chicken that makes the chicken move...
...confident that results are not subject to genetic foibles. They could also reduce the number of animals that would be needed in a given experiment, making research cheaper and requiring fewer monkeys. "The downside," Wolf said, "is that this is one step in the direction of suggesting that nuclear transfer can be done in human beings," He insisted that the center has no interest in cloning a person. The twins, born in August to surrogate mothers through in vitro fertilization, can expect to live normal monkey lives of 15 to 20 years, researchers said. But huddled in the corner...