nuclear transfer

noun

1. the procedure used to produce the first cloned mammals, in which the nucleus of a somatic cell is transferred into an egg cell whose own nucleus has been removed. This cell is then stimulated by an electric shock to divide and form an embryo

Example Sentences

"He led efforts to develop cloning, or nuclear transfer, techniques that could be used to make genetically modified sheep. It was these efforts which led to the births of Megan and Morag in 1995 and Dolly in 1996," the university said in a statement.

From Reuters

Reproductive cloning of animals uses a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer.

From Reuters

Somatic cell nuclear transfer—the technique used to create her—uses a domestic ferret as a surrogate mother, a process that leaves traces of domestic genes in the cloned offspring.

From Science Magazine

The idea was to use a technology that didn’t exist when the zoo had stored the samples: somatic cell nuclear transfer.

From Science Magazine

This approach provided a useful visual marker to confirm that the resulting animals obtained from nuclear transfer were indeed derived from the transferred nucleus, and not from existing material in the egg.

From Nature