What I’ve read is that pluripotent stem cells can’t form a placenta and “cannot develop into an entire organism on their own.” If this is the case then how are cloned animals created using pluripotent stem cells?
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Your premise is false. You’re mixing up reproductive cloning with therapeutic cloning. Cloned organisms don’t use pluripotent stem cells, they use nuclear DNA taken from the somatic cell of an organism that is transplanted into a donor egg cell. Therapeutic cloning uses stem cells but therapeutic cloning doesn’t and isn’t intended to create a new organism, just a line of cells.
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