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Altered Nuclear Transfer
Altered nuclear transfer is an alternative to somatic cell nuclear transfer Somatic cell nuclear transfer, which is what reproductive cloning is often called amoung scienfitic circles. It involves taking the nucleous out of either and egg or a sperm cell and altering the CDX2 gene so that it does not become an embryonic stem cell. Instead the extent of life of the then fertilized altered zygote becomes a pluripotent stem cell without ever turning into an embryo Embryo. This bypasses a common ethical delima of destroying an embryo in order to harvest the stem cells.

Ethical issues
Pope Benedict XVI said that embryonic stem cells research, artificial insemination and the possibility of human cloning have "shattered the barriers meant to protect human dignity".