The first license to clone human embryos for therapeutic purposes was issued by the Australian government following a 2006 vote by the national parliament lifting a ban on the practice. Therapeutic cloning or somatic cell nuclear transfer involves replacing the nucleus of an unfertilized egg with that of an adult cell, as opposed to the still-banned practice of using excess IVF embryos or creating new ones through fertilization. The research will not involve allowing the embryos to go beyond th....
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