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From the article: "ViaGen created embryos and implanted them into a domestic ferret surrogate".

I wonder how the "created embryos" step can be done?




An unfertilized donor egg cell is taken from another animal and has its nucleus replaced with one from a cell from the animal to be cloned. The reprogrammed egg cell is then stimulated to start dividing much like a normal fertilized egg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell_nuclear_transfer




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