• Question: Is tissue engineering cloning ?

    Asked by charlo123 to Jen on 15 Mar 2013.
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      Jennifer Paxton answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      In a way, yes it is! Cloning means to create an identical copy of a living thing so yes, if we were to take a sample of a patients cells and grow them up to make a tissue, this tissue would still be from the patient and have the same DNA!

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