From there, a single skin cell (somatic cell) would be removed from either, or both, parents and the nucleus from these somatic cells would then be inserted into the "empty" egg thus fertilizing an egg for development inside a womb like any other conceived egg, but without the emotionally, financially, and physically draining process of other fertility treatments with a much higher predicted success rate. ... In a lesbian couple, the DNA of one mother would be combined with an egg extracted from the other mother figure, fertilizing it and reinserting it into the womb to carry out the...

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An unfertilized egg is then taken out of an adult ewe, and the eggs nucleus, along with its DNA, is sucked out. Thus leaving an empty egg cell that still has the cellular machinery to produce an embryo. The empty egg and the culture of the starved cells are then placed next to each other. An electronic pulse causes the egg and cells to fuse together, and a second pulse is given to start the cell division. ... Although scientists understand most of the cloning processes, how and why the DNA changes once inside the egg remains a mystery. ...

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Researchers protected the progress by saying they wanted to use the cloned embryos to harvest stem cells, rather than to create babies. Stem cells can be used to treat an immense amount of diseases, such as: diabetes, strokes, cancer, and AIDS. ... Well cloning allows people to turn any cell into an animal. Instead of injecting DNA into an egg, you can shoot DNA into cells in a petri dish. ...

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