Scientists can clone animal
cells, including human cells.
It is called
therapeutic
cloning. One method is
called SCNT. That stands
for “
somatic
cell nuclear
transfer.” SCNT helps
scientists clone cells. Cloned
cells are put into a patient.
They treat disease.
There are many future
possibilities for SCNT. One is
making cloned organs from a
patient’s own cells.
A cloned organ would be
very safe. The organ would
match a patient’s body.
There would be no rejection.
Rejection is when the body
attacks something. It thinks
the intruder does not belong.
Rejection is a common
and dangerous reaction to
organ transplants.
therapeutic
: having to do with
health and healing
somatic
: having to do with the
body rather than the mind
CLONING
HUMANS
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