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__THERAPEUTICX CELL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.__

= = =__**ABOUT US**__ = =Therapeuticx Cell Technologies© (T.C.T.) was created in 2005 and is based in Albany, New York. The T.C.T. building contains laboratories, offices, and a small plant to manufacture the products made by the= =company. T.C.T. specializes in therapeutic cell cloning, and is currently one of the world’s most successful small companies in that field. Our goal is to utilize this technology to produce organs and cells to= =improve human life and health.=

=__**ABOUT THE FOUNDER**__= =The founder and CEO of T.C.T. is Nick Lau, a 29 year old from Niskayuna, New York and a Harvard graduate with a PhD in Medical Science. He first discovered therapeutic cloning technology through his ninth= =grade Biology teacher, Mr. Jennings and has had a passion for the science ever since. He believes this technology is the future of medicine and therefore founded this company.=

=__**ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY**__= =In 1885, August Weismann, a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Freiburg published an incorrect theory stating that the genetic information of a cell diminishes as the cell differentiates.= =In 1894, Hans Dreisch created the first cloned animals by blastomere transfer. He isolated blastomeres from 2 and 4 cell sea urchin and observed their development into larvae.= =In 1952, Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King cloned northern leopard frogs using nuclear transfer.= =In 1993, fertility researcher Dr. Jerry L. Hall of George Washington University Medical Center successfully cloned the first human embryos.= = In 1996, Dolly, the world’s first cloned sheep, was created by Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell, colleagues at the Roslin University near Edinburgh, Scotland.= =In 1998, researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison led by James A. Thomson perfected the method for growing human embryonic stem cells. Since then, research in stem cells and therapeutic cell cloning= =has taken off.=

=__**HOW DOES IT WORK?**__= =The procedure begins with extracting the nucleus from an egg cell. That egg cell acts as a recipient. Next, the nucleus of a patient’s somatic cell is extracted. The nucleus from the somatic cell is inserted into the= =enucleated egg cell. The host cell is stimulated to divide by a mild electric shock and forms a cluster of cells called a blastocyst. There is an inner and outer layer of cells in a blastocyst, the inner cells being rich= =in stem cells. Those inner cells are then utilized to create embryonic stem cell lines. A specific embryonic stem cell line can then be created depending on the patient’s need.=

=__**USES OF THERAPEUTIC CLONING**__= > =To produce cells to replace genetically-defective cells=
 * =To produce cells for replace injury-damage tissue=
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 * =To produce replacement cells for diseased cells such as Alzheimer’s disease=
 * =Stem cell transplants to treat disease such as leukemia=
 * =To produce organs to treat diseases such as kidney and liver failure=
 * =To repopulate endangered species (examples include the guar and the African wildcat)=

=__**OUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE**__=
 * =To artificially produce food (i.e. growing a steak in a petri dish)=
 * =To “bring back” extinct animals such as the woolly mammoth=
 * =To create true prosthetics made of flesh, bone, and muscle, and nerves=
 * =To genetically engineer/modify organisms to benefit humans=

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