Enucleated Eggs

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Human body cell nuclei could be transferred to "enucleated eggs" with the result that only "pluripotent stem cells" would be created. This can be achieved by making use of a gene called "Nanog." This results in the formation of pluripotent stem cells which can be cultured to produce a pluripotent stem cell line. "No embryos would be formed and none would be destroyed, this would make both pragmatic and ethical sense without the need of therapeutic cloning." 

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Using a procedure called somatic cell nuclear transfer, defenders of ANT-OAR propose extracting the nucleus of an adult body cell with its highly specified epigenetic state of the cell type from which it was extracted, such as a skin cell. This stem cell is then transferred into an egg cell whose nucleus has been removed. Without a nucleus, the egg cell is no longer an oocyte, or an egg cell, but rather an ooplast, an organic sac of oocyte cytoplasm. 

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