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Cal. Health and Safety Code § 1644.9 (2026)

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This chapter does not apply to the application of somatic nuclear transfer technology to the creation of a human being that shares all of its nuclear genes with the person donating the implanted nucleus, commonly known as human cloning. For purposes of this section, the phrase “somatic cell nuclear transfer” means the process in which the nucleus of a somatic cell of an organism is transferred into an enucleated oocyte.

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Cited in 1 case, 2007–2007 · leading case: California Fam. Bioethics Council, LLC v. California Inst. for Regenerative Med., 55 Cal. Rptr. 3d 272 (Cal. Ct. App. 2007).
California Fam. Bioethics Council, LLC v. California Inst. for Regenerative Med., 55 Cal. Rptr. 3d 272 (Cal. Ct. App. 2007). “) Health and Safety Code section 1644.9 provides, “For purposes of this section, the phrase ‘somatic cell nuclear transfer’ means the process in which the nucleus of a somatic cell of an organism is transferred into an enucleated oocyte.”
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