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New paths to human ES cells?

Somatic cell nuclear transfer from human donor cells to enucleated rabbit oocytes is being investigated as a way of generating embryonic stem cells.

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Figure 1: Schematic diagram of the derivation of nuclear transfer (nt) embryonic stem (ES) cells.

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Solter, D. New paths to human ES cells?. Nat Biotechnol 21, 1154–1155 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1003-1154

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