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==Scientific Leaders== 
EXCERPT …  ”Ethical and Legal questions cannot be addressed at this point.  Time to secure additional tissue and blood samples are necessary to even theorize at this point.  What we do know is the survivors of American Airlines Flight 283 have been diagnosed and found to be a species separate from Homo Sapiens.  These members of Homo Imperiosus have been diagnosed through somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) a technique for cloning.  
The process: The nucleus of a cell contains DNA, which acts roughly as its blueprint (although unlike an actual blueprint, these instructions are greatly affected by environment as well as other factors not yet fully understood and can change over time). In somatic cell nuclear transfer the nucleus of an unfertilized egg is removed or destroyed. The nucleus of a somatic cell (a cell other than a sperm or egg cell) is then removed and put in the emptied egg. Commonly used to produce embryonic stem cells.  Limitations: The stress placed on both the egg cell and the introduced nucleus are enormous, leading to a high mortality rate in resulting cells. As the procedure currently cannot be automated, but has to be performed manually under a microscope, SCNT is very resource intensive. The biochemistry involved in "activating" the recipient egg is far from understood. Not all of the donor cell's genetic information is transferred. DNA of organelles (mostly mitochondria) is left behind, with the resulting cells retaining those structures which originally belonged to the egg.”  '''-- Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.'''  [American Journal of Human Genetics, publication report]