The goals of cloning--to create a genetically identical copy of a biological entity--is substantially different from that of making stem cells for regenerative medicine, although both may use the somatic cell transfer technique. The use of the term therapeutic for producing stem cells is misleading and blurs the distinction between the objectives of these two very different lines of investigation. Vogelstein et al. recommend adopting the term nuclear transplantation in relation to stem cell research would be more precise and would emphasize the difference in purpose between production of stem cells and cloning to produce a copy of a human being.
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