What is a goal of human therapeutic cloning?

A) to transfer cells from an unrelated individual into a patient needing a transplant
B) to create pluripotent cells for medical research only
C) to make a new individual, who is genetically identical to a patient needing a transplant
D) to create pluripotent stem cells using a patient's nucleus
E) to extract ES cells from an embryo

Therapeutic Cloning

A technique for creating a clonal embryo using somatic cell nuclear transfer, primarily for the purpose of deriving stem cells to treat disease.

Pluripotent Stem

Cells capable of differentiating into almost any other cell type in the body, holding potential for regenerative medicine and developmental biology.

Genetic Identical

Organisms or cells that have exactly the same DNA sequence in all of their genes.