The Clone Wars | Human or Animals?

Cloning - You take an egg and you take the nucleus out of the egg. Then you take a body cell from the individual you want to clone. It could be a skin cell, it could be a liver cell, it could be any cell, and you take the nucleus out of that cell and then put it into the egg. And now what you have is an egg that looks a lot like a fertilized egg because our body cells have all the DNA we need to be an individual. Now the question is can you get that egg to start reproducing? When we use electricity we give the egg a little jolt and it begins to split and become an organism. Let's talk about someone who almost made cloning mainstream and was labeled as South Korea's cloning hero and quickly became a scientific outcast. Dr Hwang Woo-Suk - a Stem Cell Scientist. We all have heard of Dolly the sheep but in 1995 Dr. Hwang's team cloned "Super Calf" After 8 years of research they were able to create a cloned calf using cell nuclear transfer techniques in his lab at Seoul National University. 

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