Editing Human cloning (section)

===Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)===
{{Main|Somatic cell nuclear transfer}}
[[File:Cloning diagram english.svg|thumb|upright=1.3|Diagram of SCNT process]]

In somatic cell nuclear transfer ("SCNT"), the nucleus of a [[somatic cell]] is taken from a donor and transplanted into a host [[Oocyte|egg cell]], which had its own genetic material removed previously, making it an enucleated egg. After the donor somatic cell genetic material is transferred into the host oocyte with a micropipette, the somatic cell genetic material is fused with the egg using an electric current. Once the two cells have fused, the new cell can be permitted to grow in a [[In vivo|surrogate]] or [[In vitro|artificially]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Gilbert |first= Scott F. |date=30 June 2013 |title= Developmental Biology| edition= 10th |publisher=Sinauer Associates, Inc. |pages=32–33 |isbn=9780878939787 }}</ref> This is the process that was used to successfully clone Dolly the sheep (see {{section link|#History}}).<ref name="TIME"/> The technique, now refined, has indicated that it was possible to replicate cells and reestablish pluripotency, or "the potential of an embryonic cell to grow into any one of the numerous different types of mature body cells that make up a complete organism".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/science/cloning|title=cloning {{!}} Definition, Process, & Types|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|language=en|access-date=16 December 2019|archive-date=26 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200426233507/https://www.britannica.com/science/cloning|url-status=live}}</ref>