Scientists surmount epigenetic barriers to cloning with two-pronged approach
Thursday, July 19, 2018 - 13:12
in Biology & Nature
An international group of researchers have raised the viability of mice that were cloned using a method called somatic cell nuclear transfer, by stimulating two epigenetic factors, and by doing this have shown that creating cloned animals more efficiently will require further work in the area of epigenetics. They have also uncovered a key epigenetic mechanism that appears to be a major impediment to the development of the fetus after implantation.