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Whilst writing my master thesis in law on human cloning the following came to my mind: Therapeutic cloning involves taking a somatic cell and fusing it with an enucleated oocyte in order to create an embryo for patient specific stem cell derivation and culturing a stem cell line. Well, could one theoretically take a stem cell of such a line (the nucleus), fuse it with an enucleated oocyte and then through ''shock'' create an embryo, which would be a clone of the stem cell? If so, I have to add this new dimension to my legal argument. Many thanks for your assistance.
Re: Can an existing stem cell from a line be cloned?
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