SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER

 Dictionary entry overview: What does somatic cell nuclear transfer mean? 

• SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER (noun)
  The noun SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER has 1 sense:

1. moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another

  Familiarity information: SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

nuclear transplantation; SCNT; somatic cell nuclear transfer; somatic cell nuclear transplantation

Hypernyms ("somatic cell nuclear transfer" is a kind of...):

biological research (scientific research conducted by biologists)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "somatic cell nuclear transfer"):

biomedical cloning; therapeutic cloning (nuclear transplantation of a patient's own cells to make an oocyte from which immune-compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be derived for transplant)

 Context examples 

Although somatic cell nuclear transfer was used successfully in amphibians as early as 1952, getting it to work in mammals took much longer.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)

The term clone may also be used to refer to an animal produced by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or parthenogenesis.

(Clone, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They used somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same method that was used to create Dolly the sheep in 1996.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)

In somatic cell nuclear transfer, scientists remove the nucleus, which is the organelle that contains the chromosomes, from an unfertilized ovum, or egg cell, and implant the nucleus from a somatic cell, or non-reproductive cell, into that ovum.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)