Extinction of Xist improves cloning.

Tonge, Peter Dennis; Nagy, Andras · Cell Stem Cell · 2010

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Mammalian cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer is a notoriously inefficient process with a low birth rate. Recently in Science, Inoue et al. (2010) report that somatic cell nuclear transfer fails to regulate Xist expression from the X chromosome.