Lab 12: Gametogenesis

By: D'Lissa Mattox

 In Nuclear Transportation Embryonic Stem Cells, and the Potential for Cell Therapy that was written by Konrad Hochedlinger, Ph.D and Rudolf Jaenisch, M.D, there was a lot of scientific language that made the article hard to understand.  The different statistics of cloning are shown, and It talks about some of the different types of cloning, like nuclear transfer and nuclear transplantation, also reproductive cloning. There are quite a few illustrations that demonstrate how cloning works in the different cloning way. From what I could get from the article it describes the nuclear transportation of adult donor cells process. It also talks about why reproductive cloning has been unsuccessful. Their studies are showing that therapeutic cloning is a more efficient way of cloning than reproductive cloning. It looks like therapeutic cloning seems like it might be the best choice because it would get rid of growing an infant for the parts. The tissue needed for a specific recipient would be able to be grown instead of needing a matching donor and being rejected.

My Response is more leaning towards liking the idea of Therapeutic cloning verses reproductive cloning. I do think there needs to be tons more research to get the best success rate. Nothing stays the same forever so I think it is something that will always have to be tested and continued to be tested. I think that it really could improve the transplant industry but will not be perfected very soon. I do Think it might be the better option in the long run and I’m interested to see it grow.

https://rep.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/rep/154/6/REP-17-0510.xml

http://www.stemcellresearch.umich.edu/overview/faq.html