Talk:Somatic cell nuclear transfer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is part of WikiProject Genetics, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to genetics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this page, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received an importance rating.

This topic contains controversial issues, some of which have reached a consensus for approach and neutrality, and some of which may be disputed. Before making any potentially controversial changes to the article, please carefully read the discussion-page dialogue to see if the issue has been raised before, and ensure that your edit meets all of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Please also ensure you use an accurate and concise edit summary.

	MCB Portal This article is within the scope of the Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject. To participate, visit the WikiProject for more information. The WikiProject's current monthly collaboration is focused on improving Restriction enzyme.
B	This article has been rated as B-Class on the assessment scale.
High	This article is on a subject of High-importance within molecular and cellular biology.
Article Grading: The article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it will need.

Are there organelles besides mitochondria that have DNA/RNA? I'm pretty sure there aren't. 68.6.190.89 04:55, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Only in plants, where chloroplasts have DNA as well. It's just mitochondria in animals. TimVickers 21:39, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 merge with Therapeutic cloning 2 Expansion 3 Citation 4 Vandalism 5 External link 6 Suitable somatic cells

[edit] merge with Therapeutic cloning

I am merging this page with the one on therapeutic cloning. 'Therapeutic cloning' is simply a (misnamed) application of the SCNT process. - User:Jesse Reynolds 23:05, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. I have been reading through articles on therapeutic cloning, ie. SCNT with the subsequent cells used to derive specific semi/fully-differentiated cell types of clinical value, and find no such useful information on the SCNT page. Especially with all the ridiculous hoopla amongst lay people concerning cloning technology it would probably also be good to have separate entries for reproductive and therapeutic cloning. Additionally, it would be a great place to consolidate the increasing amount of information regarding experiments relating to therapeutic cloning without the unrelated material concerning growing entire organisms and the associated "controversy." I suggest that "therapeutic cloning" link to the section within cloning and that its own entry be created when that section becomes greater in length. I don't understand why it is being called a "misnamed application of SCNT," could you please elaborate so that these pages might be more organized? Thanks! --Xris0 (talk) 06:04, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion

I elaborated the sections on SCNT in stem cell research, controversy, and policy. These were made fairly consistent with the page stem cell controversy. A number of paragraphs were edited, and a few sentences removed, due to inaccuracies. I need to add some footnotes, and plan to do so soon. --Jesse Reynolds 01:24, 6 October 2006 (UTC) yet i still want to know in depth what therapeutic cloning is and i want to know why and when therapeutic cloning was first introduced. also how is therapeutic cloning different from other types of cloning.

[edit] Citation

I added and improved several references to this article, could editors try to use high-quality peer-reviewed sources in this article, as it deals with a scientific area. Thank you. TimVickers 21:39, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

I corrected some vandalism in the "process" section, but my text may be inaccurate. Could someone follow up for me? ~~Mike

[edit] External link

FAO: Tim Vickers, I agree in principle with your comment posted on the SCNT page. I would however suggest that A) The aforementioned article deals with both reproductive and therapeutic cloning, B) There is no reproductive cloning page on Wikipedia and C) Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) *is* both reproductive and therapeutic cloning as this is the core procedure in both cases, thus I believe it is pertinent to include a discussion of these forms of cloning from a personal perspective, so I have re-included the webpage link. Kind regards, George

Hi George. The article briefly touches on therapeutic cloning and doesn't mention the technology of SCNT at all. Instead it is a discussion of the ethics of reproductive cloning. Reproductive cloning is dealt with in the Human cloning article. I have moved your link to this page. TimVickers 01:07, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suitable somatic cells

This article should mention explicitly that epigenetic modification precludes nuclear transfer from producing viable embryos from many somatic cells (preferrably with some examples). It needs more than lip service to reprogramming, particularly since the epigenetics article is so much better than the reprogramming one. Psyno 15:46, 11 April 2007 (UTC)