21.   The chip, which automates the laborious process of nuclear transfer, could make it easy enough for companies to mass-produce identical copies of prize animals for farmers.

22.   The Texas scientists plan to use some variation of nuclear transfer, the technique that produced Dolly and similar clones.

23.   PPL said the calf, like Dolly, was produced by a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer.

24.   Although U.S. scientists successfully cloned calves using the same nuclear transfer technique, Holly and Belle were still front-page news here amid growing discussions on the controversial subject.

25.   But before Pharming could fully savor its success, the Dutch Agriculture Ministry said Friday that it will ban the nuclear transfer technique.

26.   But before Pharming could fully savor its success, the Dutch Agriculture Ministry said Friday that it has decided to ban the nuclear transfer technique.

27.   In nuclear transfer, scientists remove the nucleus from an egg and replace it with the nucleus from another cell.

28.   Intelligence reports, never publicly confirmed by Washington, persist in outlining Chinese nuclear transfers to Iran.

29.   Robl said the technique his team used to clone the calves was a variation on the nuclear transfer process Wilmut used last year to clone Dolly.

30.   Fischbach and other lawmakers instead support an alternative piece of legislation to ban reproductive cloning, but allow therapeutic cloning -- or somatic cell nuclear transfer.