Embryo, Mammalian: The entity of a developing mammal (MAMMALS), generally from the cleavage of a ZYGOTE to the end of embryonic differentiation of basic structures. For the human embryo, this represents the first two months of intrauterine development preceding the stages of the FETUS.Embryo Implantation: Endometrial implantation of EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN at the BLASTOCYST stage.Blastocyst: A post-MORULA preimplantation mammalian embryo that develops from a 32-cell stage into a fluid-filled hollow ball of over a hundred cells. A blastocyst has two distinctive tissues. The outer layer of trophoblasts gives rise to extra-embryonic tissues. The inner cell mass gives rise to the embryonic disc and eventual embryo proper.Embryo Research: Experimentation on, or using the organs or tissues from, a human or other mammalian conceptus during the prenatal stage of development that is characterized by rapid morphological changes and the differentiation of basic structures. In humans, this includes the period from the time of fertilization to the end of the eighth week after fertilization.Blastomeres: Undifferentiated cells resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg (ZYGOTE). Inside the intact ZONA PELLUCIDA, each cleavage yields two blastomeres of about half size of the parent cell. Up to the 8-cell stage, all of the blastomeres are totipotent. The 16-cell MORULA contains outer cells and inner cells.Embryonic Development: Morphological and physiological development of EMBRYOS.Embryo, Nonmammalian: The developmental entity of a fertilized egg (ZYGOTE) in animal species other than MAMMALS. For chickens, use CHICK EMBRYO.Fertilization in Vitro: An assisted reproductive technique that includes the direct handling and manipulation of oocytes and sperm to achieve fertilization in vitro.Chick Embryo: The developmental entity of a fertilized chicken egg (ZYGOTE). The developmental process begins about 24 h before the egg is laid at the BLASTODISC, a small whitish spot on the surface of the EGG YOLK. After 21 days of incubation, the embryo is fully developed before hatching.Embryonic and Fetal Development: Morphological and physiological development of EMBRYOS or FETUSES.Personhood: The state or condition of being a human individual accorded moral and/or legal rights. Criteria to be used to determine this status are subject to debate, and range from the requirement of simply being a human organism to such requirements as that the individual be self-aware and capable of rational thought and moral agency.Beginning of Human Life: The point at which religious ensoulment or PERSONHOOD is considered to begin.Pregnancy: The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.Embryo Disposition: Utilization or disposal of an embryo that is fertilized but not immediately transplanted and resulting course of action.Cryopreservation: Preservation of cells, tissues, organs, or embryos by freezing. In histological preparations, cryopreservation or cryofixation is used to maintain the existing form, structure, and chemical composition of all the constituent elements of the specimens.Embryo Culture Techniques: The technique of maintaining or growing mammalian EMBRYOS in vitro. This method offers an opportunity to observe EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; METABOLISM; and susceptibility to TERATOGENS.Embryo Transfer: The transfer of mammalian embryos from an in vivo or in vitro environment to a suitable host to improve pregnancy or gestational outcome in human or animal. In human fertility treatment programs, preimplantation embryos ranging from the 4-cell stage to the blastocyst stage are transferred to the uterine cavity between 3-5 days after FERTILIZATION IN VITRO.Pregnancy Rate: The ratio of the number of conceptions (CONCEPTION) including LIVE BIRTH; STILLBIRTH; and fetal losses, to the mean number of females of reproductive age in a population during a set time period.Zygote: The fertilized OVUM resulting from the fusion of a male and a female gamete.Life: The state that distinguishes organisms from inorganic matter, manifested by growth, metabolism, reproduction, and adaptation. It includes the course of existence, the sum of experiences, the mode of existing, or the fact of being. Over the centuries inquiries into the nature of life have crossed the boundaries from philosophy to biology, forensic medicine, anthropology, etc., in creative as well as scientific literature. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed; Dr. James H. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)Preimplantation Diagnosis: Determination of the nature of a pathological condition or disease in the OVUM; ZYGOTE; or BLASTOCYST prior to implantation. CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS is performed to determine the presence or absence of genetic disease.Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental: Any of the processes by which nuclear, cytoplasmic, or intercellular factors influence the differential control of gene action during the developmental stages of an organism.Value of Life: The intrinsic moral worth ascribed to a living being. (Bioethics Thesaurus)Culture Techniques: Methods of maintaining or growing biological materials in controlled laboratory conditions. These include the cultures of CELLS; TISSUES; organs; or embryo in vitro. Both animal and plant tissues may be cultured by a variety of methods. Cultures may derive from normal or abnormal tissues, and consist of a single cell type or mixed cell types.Anatomy, Artistic: The study of the structures of organisms for applications in art: drawing, painting, sculpture, illustration, etc.Mosaicism: The occurrence in an individual of two or more cell populations of different chromosomal constitutions, derived from a single ZYGOTE, as opposed to CHIMERISM in which the different cell populations are derived from more than one zygote.Theology: The study of religion and religious belief, or a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings (from online Cambridge Dictionary of American English, 2000 and WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database, 1997)Ectogenesis: Embryonic and fetal development that takes place in an artificial environment in vitro.Morula: An early embryo that is a compact mass of about 16 BLASTOMERES. It resembles a cluster of mulberries with two types of cells, outer cells and inner cells. Morula is the stage before BLASTULA in non-mammalian animals or a BLASTOCYST in mammals.Embryology: The study of the development of an organism during the embryonic and fetal stages of life.Incubators: Insulated enclosures in which temperature, humidity, and other environmental conditions can be regulated at levels optimal for growth, hatching, reproduction, or metabolic reactions.Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic: An assisted fertilization technique consisting of the microinjection of a single viable sperm into an extracted ovum. It is used principally to overcome low sperm count, low sperm motility, inability of sperm to penetrate the egg, or other conditions related to male infertility (INFERTILITY, MALE).Single Embryo Transfer: The techniques used to select and/or place only one embryo from FERTILIZATION IN VITRO into the uterine cavity to establish a singleton pregnancy.Fetal Research: Experimentation on, or using the organs or tissues from, a human or other mammalian conceptus in the postembryonic period, after the major structures have been outlined. In humans, this corresponds to the period from the third month after fertilization until birth.Prenatal Injuries: Damages to the EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN or the FETUS before BIRTH. Damages can be caused by any factors including biological, chemical, or physical.Cloning, Organism: The formation of one or more genetically identical organisms derived by vegetative reproduction from a single cell. The source nuclear material can be embryo-derived, fetus-derived, or taken from an adult somatic cell.Oocytes: Female germ cells derived from OOGONIA and termed OOCYTES when they enter MEIOSIS. The primary oocytes begin meiosis but are arrested at the diplotene state until OVULATION at PUBERTY to give rise to haploid secondary oocytes or ova (OVUM).Research Embryo Creation: The creation of embryos specifically for research purposes.Ethylene Glycol: A colorless, odorless, viscous dihydroxy alcohol. It has a sweet taste, but is poisonous if ingested. Ethylene glycol is the most important glycol commercially available and is manufactured on a large scale in the United States. It is used as an antifreeze and coolant, in hydraulic fluids, and in the manufacture of low-freezing dynamites and resins.Embryo Loss: Early pregnancy loss during the EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN stage of development. In the human, this period comprises the second through eighth week after fertilization.Morals: Standards of conduct that distinguish right from wrong.Fetal Viability: The potential of the FETUS to survive outside the UTERUS after birth, natural or induced. Fetal viability depends largely on the FETAL ORGAN MATURITY, and environmental conditions.Gestational Age: The age of the conceptus, beginning from the time of FERTILIZATION. In clinical obstetrics, the gestational age is often estimated as the time from the last day of the last MENSTRUATION which is about 2 weeks before OVULATION and fertilization.Reproductive Techniques: Methods pertaining to the generation of new individuals, including techniques used in selective BREEDING, cloning (CLONING, ORGANISM), and assisted reproduction (REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED).Cryoprotective Agents: Substances that provide protection against the harmful effects of freezing temperatures.Vitrification: The transformation of a liquid to a glassy solid i.e., without the formation of crystals during the cooling process.Human Characteristics: The fundamental dispositions and traits of humans. (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed)Aneuploidy: The chromosomal constitution of cells which deviate from the normal by the addition or subtraction of CHROMOSOMES, chromosome pairs, or chromosome fragments. In a normally diploid cell (DIPLOIDY) the loss of a chromosome pair is termed nullisomy (symbol: 2N-2), the loss of a single chromosome is MONOSOMY (symbol: 2N-1), the addition of a chromosome pair is tetrasomy (symbol: 2N+2), the addition of a single chromosome is TRISOMY (symbol: 2N+1).Cleavage Stage, Ovum: The earliest developmental stage of a fertilized ovum (ZYGOTE) during which there are several mitotic divisions within the ZONA PELLUCIDA. Each cleavage or segmentation yields two BLASTOMERES of about half size of the parent cell. This cleavage stage generally covers the period up to 16-cell MORULA.Trophoblasts: Cells lining the outside of the BLASTOCYST. After binding to the ENDOMETRIUM, trophoblasts develop into two distinct layers, an inner layer of mononuclear cytotrophoblasts and an outer layer of continuous multinuclear cytoplasm, the syncytiotrophoblasts, which form the early fetal-maternal interface (PLACENTA).Gamete Intrafallopian Transfer: A technique that came into use in the mid-1980's for assisted conception in infertile women with normal fallopian tubes. The protocol consists of hormonal stimulation of the ovaries, followed by laparoscopic follicular aspiration of oocytes, and then the transfer of sperm and oocytes by catheterization into the fallopian tubes.Pregnancy Outcome: Results of conception and ensuing pregnancy, including LIVE BIRTH; STILLBIRTH; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; INDUCED ABORTION. The outcome may follow natural or artificial insemination or any of the various ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, such as EMBRYO TRANSFER or FERTILIZATION IN VITRO.Yolk Sac: The first of four extra-embryonic membranes to form during EMBRYOGENESIS. In REPTILES and BIRDS, it arises from endoderm and mesoderm to incorporate the EGG YOLK into the DIGESTIVE TRACT for nourishing the embryo. In placental MAMMALS, its nutritional function is vestigial; however, it is the source of INTESTINAL MUCOSA; BLOOD CELLS; and GERM CELLS. It is sometimes called the vitelline sac, which should not be confused with the VITELLINE MEMBRANE of the egg.Mesoderm: The middle germ layer of an embryo derived from three paired mesenchymal aggregates along the neural tube.Germ Layers: The three primary germinal layers (ECTODERM; ENDODERM; and MESODERM) developed during GASTRULATION that provide tissues and body plan of a mature organism. They derive from two early layers, hypoblast and epiblast.Morphogenesis: The development of anatomical structures to create the form of a single- or multi-cell organism. Morphogenesis provides form changes of a part, parts, or the whole organism.Catholicism: The Christian faith, practice, or system of the Catholic Church, specifically the Roman Catholic, the Christian church that is characterized by a hierarchic structure of bishops and priests in which doctrinal and disciplinary authority are dependent upon apostolic succession, with the pope as head of the episcopal college. (From Webster, 3d ed; American Heritage Dictionary, 2d college ed)Zona Pellucida: A tough transparent membrane surrounding the OVUM. It is penetrated by the sperm during FERTILIZATION.Fertilization: The fusion of a spermatozoon (SPERMATOZOA) with an OVUM thus resulting in the formation of a ZYGOTE.In Situ Hybridization: A technique that localizes specific nucleic acid sequences within intact chromosomes, eukaryotic cells, or bacterial cells through the use of specific nucleic acid-labeled probes.ThiepinsCulture Media: Any liquid or solid preparation made specifically for the growth, storage, or transport of microorganisms or other types of cells. The variety of media that exist allow for the culturing of specific microorganisms and cell types, such as differential media, selective media, test media, and defined media. Solid media consist of liquid media that have been solidified with an agent such as AGAR or GELATIN.Totipotent Stem Cells: Single cells that have the potential to form an entire organism. They have the capacity to specialize into extraembryonic membranes and tissues, the embryo, and all postembryonic tissues and organs. (Stem Cells: A Primer [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Institutes of Health (US); 2000 May [cited 2002 Apr 5]. Available from: http://www.nih.gov/news/stemcell/primer.htm)Fetus: The unborn young of a viviparous mammal, in the postembryonic period, after the major structures have been outlined. In humans, the unborn young from the end of the eighth week after CONCEPTION until BIRTH, as distinguished from the earlier EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN.Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation: Human experimentation that is not intended to benefit the subjects on whom it is performed. Phase I drug studies (CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE I AS TOPIC) and research involving healthy volunteers are examples of nontherapeutic human experimentation.Eastern Orthodoxy: The name given to the religion of the body of modern churches, including among others the Greek and Russian Orthodox, that is derived from the church of the Byzantine Empire, adheres to the Byzantine rite, and acknowledges the honorary primacy of the patriarch of Constantinople. (from American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed)Embryonic Stem Cells: Cells derived from the BLASTOCYST INNER CELL MASS which forms before implantation in the uterine wall. They retain the ability to divide, proliferate and provide progenitor cells that can differentiate into specialized cells.Propylene Glycol: A clear, colorless, viscous organic solvent and diluent used in pharmaceutical preparations.Chromosome Aberrations: Abnormal number or structure of chromosomes. Chromosome aberrations may result in CHROMOSOME DISORDERS.Time Factors: Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.Endometrium: The mucous membrane lining of the uterine cavity that is hormonally responsive during the MENSTRUAL CYCLE and PREGNANCY. The endometrium undergoes cyclic changes that characterize MENSTRUATION. After successful FERTILIZATION, it serves to sustain the developing embryo.Reproductive Techniques, Assisted: Clinical and laboratory techniques used to enhance fertility in humans and animals.Bones of Upper Extremity: The bones of the upper and lower ARM. They include the CLAVICLE and SCAPULA.Zebrafish: An exotic species of the family CYPRINIDAE, originally from Asia, that has been introduced in North America. They are used in embryological studies and to study the effects of certain chemicals on development.Notochord: A cartilaginous rod of mesodermal cells at the dorsal midline of all CHORDATE embryos. In lower vertebrates, notochord is the backbone of support. In the higher vertebrates, notochord is a transient structure, and segments of the vertebral column will develop around it. Notochord is also a source of midline signals that pattern surrounding tissues including the NEURAL TUBE development.Gastrula: The developmental stage that follows BLASTULA or BLASTOCYST. It is characterized by the morphogenetic cell movements including invagination, ingression, and involution. Gastrulation begins with the formation of the PRIMITIVE STREAK, and ends with the formation of three GERM LAYERS, the body plan of the mature organism.Fallopian Tubes: A pair of highly specialized muscular canals extending from the UTERUS to its corresponding OVARY. They provide the means for OVUM collection, and the site for the final maturation of gametes and FERTILIZATION. The fallopian tube consists of an interstitium, an isthmus, an ampulla, an infundibulum, and fimbriae. Its wall consists of three histologic layers: serous, muscular, and an internal mucosal layer lined with both ciliated and secretory cells.Cell Differentiation: Progressive restriction of the developmental potential and increasing specialization of function that leads to the formation of specialized cells, tissues, and organs.Philosophy, MedicalBody Patterning: The processes occurring in early development that direct morphogenesis. They specify the body plan ensuring that cells will proceed to differentiate, grow, and diversify in size and shape at the correct relative positions. Included are axial patterning, segmentation, compartment specification, limb position, organ boundary patterning, blood vessel patterning, etc.Homeodomain Proteins: Proteins encoded by homeobox genes (GENES, HOMEOBOX) that exhibit structural similarity to certain prokaryotic and eukaryotic DNA-binding proteins. Homeodomain proteins are involved in the control of gene expression during morphogenesis and development (GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL).RNA, Messenger: RNA sequences that serve as templates for protein synthesis. Bacterial mRNAs are generally primary transcripts in that they do not require post-transcriptional processing. Eukaryotic mRNA is synthesized in the nucleus and must be exported to the cytoplasm for translation. Most eukaryotic mRNAs have a sequence of polyadenylic acid at the 3' end, referred to as the poly(A) tail. The function of this tail is not known for certain, but it may play a role in the export of mature mRNA from the nucleus as well as in helping stabilize some mRNA molecules by retarding their degradation in the cytoplasm.Molecular Sequence Data: Descriptions of specific amino acid, carbohydrate, or nucleotide sequences which have appeared in the published literature and/or are deposited in and maintained by databanks such as GENBANK, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF), or other sequence repositories.Cell Nucleus: Within a eukaryotic cell, a membrane-limited body which contains chromosomes and one or more nucleoli (CELL NUCLEOLUS). The nuclear membrane consists of a double unit-type membrane which is perforated by a number of pores; the outermost membrane is continuous with the ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM. A cell may contain more than one nucleus. (From Singleton & Sainsbury, Dictionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, 2d ed)Tissue Survival: The span of viability of a tissue or an organ.In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence: A type of IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION in which target sequences are stained with fluorescent dye so their location and size can be determined using fluorescence microscopy. This staining is sufficiently distinct that the hybridization signal can be seen both in metaphase spreads and in interphase nuclei.Infertility, Female: Diminished or absent ability of a female to achieve conception.Cell Line: Established cell cultures that have the potential to propagate indefinitely.Immunohistochemistry: Histochemical localization of immunoreactive substances using labeled antibodies as reagents.Pregnancy Trimester, First: The beginning third of a human PREGNANCY, from the first day of the last normal menstrual period (MENSTRUATION) through the completion of 14 weeks (98 days) of gestation.Urogenital System: All the organs involved in reproduction and the formation and release of URINE. It includes the kidneys, ureters, BLADDER; URETHRA, and the organs of reproduction - ovaries, UTERUS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; VAGINA; and CLITORIS in women and the testes; SEMINAL VESICLES; PROSTATE; seminal ducts; and PENIS in men.Transcription Factors: Endogenous substances, usually proteins, which are effective in the initiation, stimulation, or termination of the genetic transcription process.ConjunctivitisAtlases as Topic: Collections of illustrative plates, charts, etc., usually with explanatory captions.Organogenesis: Formation of differentiated cells and complicated tissue organization to provide specialized functions.Neural Tube Defects: Congenital malformations of the central nervous system and adjacent structures related to defective neural tube closure during the first trimester of pregnancy generally occurring between days 18-29 of gestation. Ectodermal and mesodermal malformations (mainly involving the skull and vertebrae) may occur as a result of defects of neural tube closure. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, pp31-41)Cell Lineage: The developmental history of specific differentiated cell types as traced back to the original STEM CELLS in the embryo.Base Sequence: The sequence of PURINES and PYRIMIDINES in nucleic acids and polynucleotides. It is also called nucleotide sequence.Chromosome Disorders: Clinical conditions caused by an abnormal chromosome constitution in which there is extra or missing chromosome material (either a whole chromosome or a chromosome segment). (from Thompson et al., Genetics in Medicine, 5th ed, p429)Nuclear Transfer Techniques: Methods of implanting a CELL NUCLEUS from a donor cell into an enucleated acceptor cell.Ectoderm: The outer of the three germ layers of an embryo.Stem Cells: Relatively undifferentiated cells that retain the ability to divide and proliferate throughout postnatal life to provide progenitor cells that can differentiate into specialized cells.Zebrafish Proteins: Proteins obtained from the ZEBRAFISH. Many of the proteins in this species have been the subject of studies involving basic embryological development (EMBRYOLOGY).Cell Count: The number of CELLS of a specific kind, usually measured per unit volume or area of sample.Dimethyl Sulfoxide: A highly polar organic liquid, that is used widely as a chemical solvent. Because of its ability to penetrate biological membranes, it is used as a vehicle for topical application of pharmaceuticals. It is also used to protect tissue during CRYOPRESERVATION. Dimethyl sulfoxide shows a range of pharmacological activity including analgesia and anti-inflammation.Ploidies: The degree of replication of the chromosome set in the karyotype.Menotropins: Extracts of urine from menopausal women that contain high concentrations of pituitary gonadotropins, FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE and LUTEINIZING HORMONE. Menotropins are used to treat infertility. The FSH:LH ratio and degree of purity vary in different preparations.Coculture Techniques: A technique of culturing mixed cell types in vitro to allow their synergistic or antagonistic interactions, such as on CELL DIFFERENTIATION or APOPTOSIS. Coculture can be of different types of cells, tissues, or organs from normal or disease states.Octamer Transcription Factor-3: An octamer transcription factor that is expressed primarily in totipotent embryonic STEM CELLS and GERM CELLS and is down-regulated during CELL DIFFERENTIATION.Mutation: Any detectable and heritable change in the genetic material that causes a change in the GENOTYPE and which is transmitted to daughter cells and to succeeding generations.Phenotype: The outward appearance of the individual. It is the product of interactions between genes, and between the GENOTYPE and the environment.Hematopoietic System: The blood-making organs and tissues, principally the bone marrow and lymph nodes.Pluripotent Stem Cells: Cells that can give rise to cells of the three different GERM LAYERS.Virus Cultivation: Process of growing viruses in live animals, plants, or cultured cells.Amino Acid Sequence: The order of amino acids as they occur in a polypeptide chain. This is referred to as the primary structure of proteins. It is of fundamental importance in determining PROTEIN CONFORMATION.Xenopus Proteins: Proteins obtained from various species of Xenopus. Included here are proteins from the African clawed frog (XENOPUS LAEVIS). Many of these proteins have been the subject of scientific investigations in the area of MORPHOGENESIS and development.Gene Expression: The phenotypic manifestation of a gene or genes by the processes of GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION and GENETIC TRANSLATION.Seeds: The encapsulated embryos of flowering plants. They are used as is or for animal feed because of the high content of concentrated nutrients like starches, proteins, and fats. Rapeseed, cottonseed, and sunflower seed are also produced for the oils (fats) they yield.Signal Transduction: The intracellular transfer of information (biological activation/inhibition) through a signal pathway. In each signal transduction system, an activation/inhibition signal from a biologically active molecule (hormone, neurotransmitter) is mediated via the coupling of a receptor/enzyme to a second messenger system or to an ion channel. Signal transduction plays an important role in activating cellular functions, cell differentiation, and cell proliferation. Examples of signal transduction systems are the GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID-postsynaptic receptor-calcium ion channel system, the receptor-mediated T-cell activation pathway, and the receptor-mediated activation of phospholipases. Those coupled to membrane depolarization or intracellular release of calcium include the receptor-mediated activation of cytotoxic functions in granulocytes and the synaptic potentiation of protein kinase activation. Some signal transduction pathways may be part of larger signal transduction pathways; for example, protein kinase activation is part of the platelet activation signal pathway.Endoderm: The inner of the three germ layers of an embryo.Image Processing, Computer-Assisted: A technique of inputting two-dimensional images into a computer and then enhancing or analyzing the imagery into a form that is more useful to the human observer.Cell Division: The fission of a CELL. It includes CYTOKINESIS, when the CYTOPLASM of a cell is divided, and CELL NUCLEUS DIVISION.Parthenogenesis: A unisexual reproduction without the fusion of a male and a female gamete (FERTILIZATION). In parthenogenesis, an individual is formed from an unfertilized OVUM that did not complete MEIOSIS. Parthenogenesis occurs in nature and can be artificially induced.Chromosomes, Human: Very long DNA molecules and associated proteins, HISTONES, and non-histone chromosomal proteins (CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE). Normally 46 chromosomes, including two sex chromosomes are found in the nucleus of human cells. They carry the hereditary information of the individual.Epithelium: One or more layers of EPITHELIAL CELLS, supported by the basal lamina, which covers the inner or outer surfaces of the body.Antigens, CD15: A trisaccharide antigen expressed on glycolipids and many cell-surface glycoproteins. In the blood the antigen is found on the surface of NEUTROPHILS; EOSINOPHILS; and MONOCYTES. In addition, CD15 antigen is a stage-specific embryonic antigen.Congenital Abnormalities: Malformations of organs or body parts during development in utero.Embryonic Induction: The complex processes of initiating CELL DIFFERENTIATION in the embryo. The precise regulation by cell interactions leads to diversity of cell types and specific pattern of organization (EMBRYOGENESIS).Cells, Cultured: Cells propagated in vitro in special media conducive to their growth. Cultured cells are used to study developmental, morphologic, metabolic, physiologic, and genetic processes, among others.Blastoderm: A layer of cells lining the fluid-filled cavity (blastocele) of a BLASTULA, usually developed from a fertilized insect, reptilian, or avian egg.Drosophila: A genus of small, two-winged flies containing approximately 900 described species. These organisms are the most extensively studied of all genera from the standpoint of genetics and cytology.Sea Urchins: Somewhat flattened, globular echinoderms, having thin, brittle shells of calcareous plates. They are useful models for studying FERTILIZATION and EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT.Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18: A specific pair of GROUP E CHROMOSOMES of the human chromosome classification.Models, Biological: Theoretical representations that simulate the behavior or activity of biological processes or diseases. For disease models in living animals, DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL is available. Biological models include the use of mathematical equations, computers, and other electronic equipment.DNA, Complementary: Single-stranded complementary DNA synthesized from an RNA template by the action of RNA-dependent DNA polymerase. cDNA (i.e., complementary DNA, not circular DNA, not C-DNA) is used in a variety of molecular cloning experiments as well as serving as a specific hybridization probe.Drosophila Proteins: Proteins that originate from insect species belonging to the genus DROSOPHILA. The proteins from the most intensely studied species of Drosophila, DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER, are the subject of much interest in the area of MORPHOGENESIS and development.DNA-Binding Proteins: Proteins which bind to DNA. The family includes proteins which bind to both double- and single-stranded DNA and also includes specific DNA binding proteins in serum which can be used as markers for malignant diseases.HLA-G Antigens: Class I human histocompatibility (HLA) surface antigens encoded by alleles on locus B of the HLA complex. The HLA-G antigens are considered non-classical class I antigens due to their distinct tissue distribution which differs from HLA-A; HLA-B; and HLA-C antigens. Note that several isoforms of HLA-G antigens result from alternative splicing of messenger RNAs produced from the HLA-G*01 allele.Culture Media, Conditioned: Culture media containing biologically active components obtained from previously cultured cells or tissues that have released into the media substances affecting certain cell functions (e.g., growth, lysis).Microscopy, Confocal: A light microscopic technique in which only a small spot is illuminated and observed at a time. An image is constructed through point-by-point scanning of the field in this manner. Light sources may be conventional or laser, and fluorescence or transmitted observations are possible.Cytoplasm: The part of a cell that contains the CYTOSOL and small structures excluding the CELL NUCLEUS; MITOCHONDRIA; and large VACUOLES. (Glick, Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1990)Microscopy, Electron: Microscopy using an electron beam, instead of light, to visualize the sample, thereby allowing much greater magnification. The interactions of ELECTRONS with specimens are used to provide information about the fine structure of that specimen. In TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY the reactions of the electrons that are transmitted through the specimen are imaged. In SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY an electron beam falls at a non-normal angle on the specimen and the image is derived from the reactions occurring above the plane of the specimen.Staining and Labeling: The marking of biological material with a dye or other reagent for the purpose of identifying and quantitating components of tissues, cells or their extracts.Tissue Distribution: Accumulation of a drug or chemical substance in various organs (including those not relevant to its pharmacologic or therapeutic action). This distribution depends on the blood flow or perfusion rate of the organ, the ability of the drug to penetrate organ membranes, tissue specificity, protein binding. The distribution is usually expressed as tissue to plasma ratios.Animals, Genetically Modified: ANIMALS whose GENOME has been altered by GENETIC ENGINEERING, or their offspring.Fibroblasts: Connective tissue cells which secrete an extracellular matrix rich in collagen and other macromolecules.Microinjections: The injection of very small amounts of fluid, often with the aid of a microscope and microsyringes.Transcription, Genetic: The biosynthesis of RNA carried out on a template of DNA. The biosynthesis of DNA from an RNA template is called REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION.Gene Expression Profiling: The determination of the pattern of genes expressed at the level of GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION, under specific circumstances or in a specific cell.DNA: A deoxyribonucleotide polymer that is the primary genetic material of all cells. Eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms normally contain DNA in a double-stranded state, yet several important biological processes transiently involve single-stranded regions. DNA, which consists of a polysugar-phosphate backbone possessing projections of purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (thymine and cytosine), forms a double helix that is held together by hydrogen bonds between these purines and pyrimidines (adenine to thymine and guanine to cytosine).RNA: A polynucleotide consisting essentially of chains with a repeating backbone of phosphate and ribose units to which nitrogenous bases are attached. RNA is unique among biological macromolecules in that it can encode genetic information, serve as an abundant structural component of cells, and also possesses catalytic activity. (Rieger et al., Glossary of Genetics: Classical and Molecular, 5th ed)X Chromosome: The female sex chromosome, being the differential sex chromosome carried by half the male gametes and all female gametes in human and other male-heterogametic species.Placenta: A highly vascularized mammalian fetal-maternal organ and major site of transport of oxygen, nutrients, and fetal waste products. It includes a fetal portion (CHORIONIC VILLI) derived from TROPHOBLASTS and a maternal portion (DECIDUA) derived from the uterine ENDOMETRIUM. The placenta produces an array of steroid, protein and peptide hormones (PLACENTAL HORMONES).Nervous System: The entire nerve apparatus, composed of a central part, the brain and spinal cord, and a peripheral part, the cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia, and plexuses. (Stedman, 26th ed)Xenopus laevis: The commonest and widest ranging species of the clawed "frog" (Xenopus) in Africa. This species is used extensively in research. There is now a significant population in California derived from escaped laboratory animals.Superovulation: Occurrence or induction of release of more ova than are normally released at the same time in a given species. The term applies to both animals and humans.Xenopus: An aquatic genus of the family, Pipidae, occurring in Africa and distinguished by having black horny claws on three inner hind toes.Karyotyping: Mapping of the KARYOTYPE of a cell.Chimera: An individual that contains cell populations derived from different zygotes.Lung: Either of the pair of organs occupying the cavity of the thorax that effect the aeration of the blood.Kidney: Body organ that filters blood for the secretion of URINE and that regulates ion concentrations.Somites: Paired, segmented masses of MESENCHYME located on either side of the developing spinal cord (neural tube). Somites derive from PARAXIAL MESODERM and continue to increase in number during ORGANOGENESIS. Somites give rise to SKELETON (sclerotome); MUSCLES (myotome); and DERMIS (dermatome).Cell Cycle: The complex series of phenomena, occurring between the end of one CELL DIVISION and the end of the next, by which cellular material is duplicated and then divided between two daughter cells. The cell cycle includes INTERPHASE, which includes G0 PHASE; G1 PHASE; S PHASE; and G2 PHASE, and CELL DIVISION PHASE.Neural Crest: The two longitudinal ridges along the PRIMITIVE STREAK appearing near the end of GASTRULATION during development of nervous system (NEURULATION). The ridges are formed by folding of NEURAL PLATE. Between the ridges is a neural groove which deepens as the fold become elevated. When the folds meet at midline, the groove becomes a closed tube, the NEURAL TUBE.Ovum: A mature haploid female germ cell extruded from the OVARY at OVULATION.Drosophila melanogaster: A species of fruit fly much used in genetics because of the large size of its chromosomes.Apoptosis: One of the mechanisms by which CELL DEATH occurs (compare with NECROSIS and AUTOPHAGOCYTOSIS). Apoptosis is the mechanism responsible for the physiological deletion of cells and appears to be intrinsically programmed. It is characterized by distinctive morphologic changes in the nucleus and cytoplasm, chromatin cleavage at regularly spaced sites, and the endonucleolytic cleavage of genomic DNA; (DNA FRAGMENTATION); at internucleosomal sites. This mode of cell death serves as a balance to mitosis in regulating the size of animal tissues and in mediating pathologic processes associated with tumor growth.Cell Adhesion Molecules: Surface ligands, usually glycoproteins, that mediate cell-to-cell adhesion. Their functions include the assembly and interconnection of various vertebrate systems, as well as maintenance of tissue integration, wound healing, morphogenic movements, cellular migrations, and metastasis.Gene Expression Regulation: Any of the processes by which nuclear, cytoplasmic, or intercellular factors influence the differential control (induction or repression) of gene action at the level of transcription or translation.Mice, Inbred ICRBiological Markers: Measurable and quantifiable biological parameters (e.g., specific enzyme concentration, specific hormone concentration, specific gene phenotype distribution in a population, presence of biological substances) which serve as indices for health- and physiology-related assessments, such as disease risk, psychiatric disorders, environmental exposure and its effects, disease diagnosis, metabolic processes, substance abuse, pregnancy, cell line development, epidemiologic studies, etc.Cell Culture Techniques: Methods for maintaining or growing CELLS in vitro.Imaging, Three-Dimensional: The process of generating three-dimensional images by electronic, photographic, or other methods. For example, three-dimensional images can be generated by assembling multiple tomographic images with the aid of a computer, while photographic 3-D images (HOLOGRAPHY) can be made by exposing film to the interference pattern created when two laser light sources shine on an object.Quail: Common name for two distinct groups of BIRDS in the order GALLIFORMES: the New World or American quails of the family Odontophoridae and the Old World quails in the genus COTURNIX, family Phasianidae.Cell Adhesion: Adherence of cells to surfaces or to other cells.Polymerase Chain Reaction: In vitro method for producing large amounts of specific DNA or RNA fragments of defined length and sequence from small amounts of short oligonucleotide flanking sequences (primers). The essential steps include thermal denaturation of the double-stranded target molecules, annealing of the primers to their complementary sequences, and extension of the annealed primers by enzymatic synthesis with DNA polymerase. The reaction is efficient, specific, and extremely sensitive. Uses for the reaction include disease diagnosis, detection of difficult-to-isolate pathogens, mutation analysis, genetic testing, DNA sequencing, and analyzing evolutionary relationships.Cattle: Domesticated bovine animals of the genus Bos, usually kept on a farm or ranch and used for the production of meat or dairy products or for heavy labor.Epithelial Cells: Cells that line the inner and outer surfaces of the body by forming cellular layers (EPITHELIUM) or masses. Epithelial cells lining the SKIN; the MOUTH; the NOSE; and the ANAL CANAL derive from ectoderm; those lining the RESPIRATORY SYSTEM and the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM derive from endoderm; others (CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM and LYMPHATIC SYSTEM) derive from mesoderm. Epithelial cells can be classified mainly by cell shape and function into squamous, glandular and transitional epithelial cells.Urochordata: A subphylum of chordates intermediate between the invertebrates and the true vertebrates. It includes the Ascidians.Teratogens: An agent that causes the production of physical defects in the developing embryo.Embryo Implantation, Delayed: Delay in the attachment and implantation of BLASTOCYST to the uterine ENDOMETRIUM. The blastocyst remains unattached beyond the normal duration thus delaying embryonic development.Stem Cell Transplantation: The transfer of STEM CELLS from one individual to another within the same species (TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS) or between species (XENOTRANSPLANTATION), or transfer within the same individual (TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS). The source and location of the stem cells determines their potency or pluripotency to differentiate into various cell types.Genes, Lethal: Genes whose loss of function or gain of function MUTATION leads to the death of the carrier prior to maturity. They may be essential genes (GENES, ESSENTIAL) required for viability, or genes which cause a block of function of an essential gene at a time when the essential gene function is required for viability.Cell Survival: The span of viability of a cell characterized by the capacity to perform certain functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, some form of responsiveness, and adaptability.Gastrulation: A process of complicated morphogenetic cell movements that reorganizes a bilayer embryo into one with three GERM LAYERS and specific orientation (dorsal/ventral; anterior/posterior). Gastrulation describes the germ layer development of a non-mammalian BLASTULA or that of a mammalian BLASTOCYST.Coturnix: A genus of BIRDS in the family Phasianidae, order GALLIFORMES, containing the common European and other Old World QUAIL.Mice, Inbred Strains: Genetically identical individuals developed from brother and sister matings which have been carried out for twenty or more generations, or by parent x offspring matings carried out with certain restrictions. All animals within an inbred strain trace back to a common ancestor in the twentieth generation.Nucleic Acid Hybridization: Widely used technique which exploits the ability of complementary sequences in single-stranded DNAs or RNAs to pair with each other to form a double helix. Hybridization can take place between two complimentary DNA sequences, between a single-stranded DNA and a complementary RNA, or between two RNA sequences. The technique is used to detect and isolate specific sequences, measure homology, or define other characteristics of one or both strands. (Kendrew, Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology, 1994, p503)Genes, Homeobox: Genes that encode highly conserved TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS that control positional identity of cells (BODY PATTERNING) and MORPHOGENESIS throughout development. Their sequences contain a 180 nucleotide sequence designated the homeobox, so called because mutations of these genes often results in homeotic transformations, in which one body structure replaces another. The proteins encoded by homeobox genes are called HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS.Biopsy: Removal and pathologic examination of specimens in the form of small pieces of tissue from the living body.Hematopoiesis: The development and formation of various types of BLOOD CELLS. Hematopoiesis can take place in the BONE MARROW (medullary) or outside the bone marrow (HEMATOPOIESIS, EXTRAMEDULLARY).Germ Cells: The reproductive cells in multicellular organisms at various stages during GAMETOGENESIS.Uterus: The hollow thick-walled muscular organ in the female PELVIS. It consists of the fundus (the body) which is the site of EMBRYO IMPLANTATION and FETAL DEVELOPMENT. Beyond the isthmus at the perineal end of fundus, is CERVIX UTERI (the neck) opening into VAGINA. Beyond the isthmi at the upper abdominal end of fundus, are the FALLOPIAN TUBES.Pregnancy, Multiple: The condition of carrying two or more FETUSES simultaneously.Fetal Death: Death of the developing young in utero. BIRTH of a dead FETUS is STILLBIRTH.Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis: Hybridization of a nucleic acid sample to a very large set of OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES, which have been attached individually in columns and rows to a solid support, to determine a BASE SEQUENCE, or to detect variations in a gene sequence, GENE EXPRESSION, or for GENE MAPPING.Nodal Protein: The founding member of the nodal signaling ligand family of proteins. Nodal protein was originally discovered in the region of the mouse embryo primitive streak referred to as HENSEN'S NODE. It is expressed asymmetrically on the left side in chordates and plays a critical role in the genesis of left-right asymmetry during vertebrate development.Bone Morphogenetic Proteins: Bone-growth regulatory factors that are members of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily of proteins. They are synthesized as large precursor molecules which are cleaved by proteolytic enzymes. The active form can consist of a dimer of two identical proteins or a heterodimer of two related bone morphogenetic proteins.Cloning, Molecular: The insertion of recombinant DNA molecules from prokaryotic and/or eukaryotic sources into a replicating vehicle, such as a plasmid or virus vector, and the introduction of the resultant hybrid molecules into recipient cells without altering the viability of those cells.Mice, Inbred C57BLUltrasonography, Prenatal: The visualization of tissues during pregnancy through recording of the echoes of ultrasonic waves directed into the body. The procedure may be applied with reference to the mother or the fetus and with reference to organs or the detection of maternal or fetal disease.
Chimera (genetics)Kingdom on the ethics of creating chimeras with human stem cells led to the decision that embryos would be allowed to be made ... diploid embryo and diploid embryo, ES cell and tetraploid embryo, diploid embryo and tetraploid embryo, ES cells and ES cells. ... "Human-Pig Hybrid Created in the Lab-Here Are the Facts". 2017-01-26. Retrieved 2017-06-03. "Scientists create human/pig hybrid ... An example is the chimera built off of ES cells and tetraploid embryos, tetraploid embryos which are artificially made by ...
But these embryonic pharyngeal arches, grooves, pouches, and slits in human embryos can not at any stage carry out the same ... "Making visible embryos: Forgery charges". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2016-10-27. Rütimeyer's ex-colleague, Wilhelm His ... For example, Haeckel proposed that the pharyngeal grooves between the pharyngeal arches in the neck of the human embryo not ... His developed a "causal-mechanical theory" of human embryonic development. Darwin's view was that embryos resembled each other ...
"Stemagen First to Create Cloned Human Embryos From Adult Cells". Prinewswire: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. January ... Weiss, Rick (January 18, 2008). "Mature Human Embryos Created From Adult Skin Cells". The Washington Post. Retrieved December ... Ricks, Delthia (January 18, 2008). "Scientists make human embryo clone". Newsday. Archived from the original on January 22, ... announced that they had successfully created the first five mature human embryos using DNA from adult skin cells, aiming to ...
... nucleus transfer techniques in human stem cell research raise a set of concerns beyond the moral status of any created embryo. ... Human eggs have been a notable exception to this rule for some time. To address the problem of creating a human egg market, ... Controversy surrounds human ESC work due to the destruction of viable human embryos. Leading scientists to seek an alternative ... American scholars have recently argued that because the product of SCNT is a clone embryo, rather than a human embryo, these ...
His research involves growing human cells within sheep embryos. In March 2007, it was announced that Zanjani had created a ... Nature, May 1, 2006 - Chimeras in the crosshairs The Daily Mail, 27 March 2007 - Now scientists create a sheep that's 15% human ... Zanjani has stated that his work involves sheep because of the blood-forming systems of sheep and humans are similar. He has ... Part-Human Esmail Zanjani, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor at Molecular Biosciences, University of Nevada, Reno Esmail Zanjani at ...
"Human embryos created using three-parent IVF - NHS Choices". www.nhs.uk. Retrieved 15 April 2015. "OHSU researchers test new ... In 2006, the OHSU Center for Women's Health moved into its current main clinical location, in the Kohler Pavilion building on ... In 2006, a group of donors interested in women's health research created a giving circle called the Center for Women's Health ... "The Philanthropy That Makes Design Possible". healthcaredesignmagazine.com. Retrieved 15 April 2015. "A pivotal moment for ...
Scientists believe they have made a potential breakthrough in the treatment of serious disease by creating a human embryo with ... "Three-parent embryo formed in lab" (web). ...
Baylis, F. (2000). Our cells/ourselves: Creating human embryos for stem cell research. Women's Health Issues, 10, 140-145. ... but her research and publication record also extend to such topics as research involving humans (including human embryo ... "novel ethical distinction between viable and non-viable human embryos." Her concept of "non-viable embryos" as acceptable ... Baylis has made numerous contributions to the development of public policy on various assisted human reproduction topics - ...
Report of the Human Embryo Research Panel of the National Institutes of Health (1994). Kiessling, Ann. What is an Embryo?" ... Creating the Child, page 39 (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1996). Steinbock, Bonnie. "Life Before Birth," pages 50 and 214-215 ( ... One rationale that has been advanced for distinguishing an early fertilized human conceptus from an embryo is that there is a ... Use of the terms preembryo and proembryo, in the context of human development, has drawn criticism from opponents of embryo ...
Cleavage (embryo) Blastula Boklage, Charles E. (2009). How New Humans Are Made: Cells and Embryos, Twins and Chimeras, Left and ... 2008). "Human embryo culture". In Lanza, Robert & Klimanskaya, Irina. Essential stem cell methods. Academic Press. p. 343. ISBN ... Once the embryo has divided into 16 cells, it begins to resemble a mulberry, hence the name morula (Latin, morus: mulberry). ... 2001). Human embryology (3rd ed.). Elsevier Health Sciences. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-443-06583-5. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter ( ...
... and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress. In the ... The process is not applied to embryos of the Alpha and Beta classes of humans. It is reserved for the Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon ... various subclasses can be created from a Bokanovsky Group. "Each process," explained the Human Element Manager, "is carried out ... One egg, one embryo, one adult - normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ...
... announced that they had created the first mature cloned human embryos from single skin cells taken from adults. These embryos ... "Morality and human embryo research. Introduction to the Talking Point on morality and human embryo research". EMBO Reports. 10 ... Helen Briggs (2008-01-17). "US team makes embryo clone of men". BBC. pp. A01. Ebert, Jessica (24 January 2005). "Human stem ... an early-stage pre-implantation embryo. Human embryos reach the blastocyst stage 4-5 days post fertilization, at which time ...
"Scientists Make First Embryo Clones From Adults". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2014-04-18. Nature. "Access : Human ... Human iPS cells were created from skin cells by direct delivery of proteins, thus eliminating the harmful risks associated with ... Lanza was part of the team that cloned the world's first early stage human embryos, as well as the first to successfully ... Cibelli, Jose B.; Lanza, Robert P.; West, Michael D.; Ezzell, Carol (2001-11-24). "The First Human Cloned Embryo". Scientific ...
Holbrook, Bradley D. (2016). "The effects of nicotine on human fetal development". Birth Defects Research Part C: Embryo Today ... It is not clear which manufacturing methods are used to make the nicotine used in e-cigarettes. The emissions from making ... E-cigarettes can be made manually put together in small factories, or they can be made in automated lines on a much bigger ... E-Liquid Manufacturing Standards (PDF). US: AMERICAN E-LIQUID MANUFACTURING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION (AEMSA). 2015. pp. 1-13. ...
Errors can occur during mitosis, especially during early embryonic development in humans.[51] Mitotic errors can create ... Kalatova B, Jesenska R, Hlinka D, Dudas M (January 2015). "Tripolar mitosis in human cells and embryos: occurrence, ... Early human embryos, cancer cells, infected or intoxicated cells can also suffer from pathological division into three or more ... a b Ross, Anna E. "Human Anatomy & Physiology I: A Chronology of the Description of Mitosis". Christian Brothers University. ...
... effort to create copy of human embryo. Wall Street Journal. Peter Wallsten and, J. R. (2004, Aug 10). THE RACE TO THE WHITE ... 2001, Nov 27). Bush criticizes firm that clones human embryos, presses for ban. Wall Street Journal. By Gautam Naik and Antonio ... Expertise in human egg biology led Kiessling to develop the country's first human egg donor program for stem cell research in ... "What is an Embryo? Law Review". Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation. Retrieved 8 November 2012. "Jones and Bartlett Topics in ...
He used this technique to study the division of cells in human embryos. In 2010, he was offered the Max Delbruck Prize, but he ... They built their first prototype in less than two months, gathering widespread attention. In October of that year, Janelia ... a method of controlling fluorescent proteins using pulses of light to create images of a higher resolution than previously ...
Lynn M. Morgan, Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos 2010. Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child 2009. Jeremy Greene, ... This prize was created in 1996. 2014. Robert N. Proctor, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case ... Charis Thompson, Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies 2006. Joseph Dumit, Picturing ...
BBC) 3 February Scientists announce that they are on the verge of creating pills that target specific genes in the human genome ... Science Daily) 14 April - Researchers produce human embryos containing DNA from three people. (Wired) (Nature) 6 May - ... Scientists create robotic nano-spiders - microscopic DNA constructs able to follow programmed instructions. (TechEYE) (Nature) ... Mater.) 17 March - Scientists create a quantum state in an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye, billions of ...
"Me too, too - How to make human embryonic stem cells without destroying human embryos". The Economist. 22 November 2007.. ... as they are derived from adult tissue samples rather than human embryos designated for scientific research. They have mainly ... Firm Says It Made Stem Cells From Human Testes". Washington Post.. ... However, recent studies have shown that both human and murine VSEL cells lack stem cell characteristics and are not pluripotent ...
"Me too, too - How to make human embryonic stem cells without destroying human embryos". The Economist. 22 November 2007. Gina ... Maggie Fox (Reuters) (2 April 2006). "U.S. Firm Says It Made Stem Cells From Human Testes". Washington Post. Liao, YH; Verchere ... as they are derived from adult tissue samples rather than human embryos designated for scientific research. They have mainly ... Mammary stem cells have been isolated from human and mouse tissue as well as from cell lines derived from the mammary gland. ...
He made human trafficking legislation his priority in his efforts during the 2013 General Assembly session, teaming up with ... He supported two "personhood" bills that sought to provide human embryos with legal rights. During his Senate career, ... "Cuccinelli Makes Human Trafficking Virginia's Top Priority in 2013". Washington.cbslocal.com. January 15, 2013. Retrieved July ... Cuccinelli made this argument on "donor intent" grounds. "That donor intent is paramount," Cuccinelli argued, "and governs the ...
These sharks are oviparous; they lay eggs in pairs in which the embryos feed solely on yolk. This species is considered ... Its large mouth, small teeth and large pharynx with gill raker papillae make it unique among the Proscyllidae family. They are ... This family of small ground sharks is not targeted by humans for any fishing or food purposes. Although not endangered or ... This species is viewed as harmless to humans. African ribbontail catshark (Eridacnis sinuans), is grey-brown in color. They are ...
Some have hypothesized that this is due to infancy, as humans are one of the few mammals who maintain regular eye contact with ... These muscles move the skin, creating lines and folds and causing the movement of facial features, such as the mouth and ... These muscles develop from the second pharyngeal arch in the embryo. The temporalis, masseter, and internal and external ... Eye Contact Detection in Humans From Birth, PNAS VOL 99 N.14 2002. Spitz, Rene A., and Wolf, K. M. "The Smiling Response: A ...
He examined the anatomical central nervous system of various embryos to compare to human ones. He found that all human infants ... This is why he believed the study of human behavior needed to be done in a carefully constructed scientific manner. He found ... Specifically, he thought that human behavior and achievement could be combined to create one physical element. One of the ways ... Weiss started his behavioral studies by examining the human bodies and embryos. Before him, no other researcher questioned what ...
This article on a gene on human chromosome 2 is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.. *v ... anterior/posterior axis specification, embryo. • regulation of transcription, DNA-templated. • negative regulation of ... Homeobox protein Hox-D8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HOXD8 gene.[5][6][7] ... Goodman FR (2003). "Limb malformations and the human HOX genes". Am. J. Med. Genet. 112 (3): 256-65. doi:10.1002/ajmg.10776. ...
Interferon - used, first, blood, body, produced, Viral Interference, New Interest... will work in human beings.) The body also produces interferon in only small amounts, making it extremely expensive to obtain. ... The protein also inhibited the growth of any other viruses in the embryos. Isaacs and Lindenmann named the interfering protein ... useful amounts from human blood cells. Monoclonal antibodies, first produced in 1975, made large-scale purification of ... While working with the visiting Swiss scientist Jean Lindenmann in 1957, Isaacs found that chick embryos (developing eggs) ...
Average baby weights during pregnancy - Siraxax... frozen embryo transfer; PM: being pregnant monitoring; FSH: follicle stimulating hormone; LH: luteinizing hormone; hCG: human ... Start slowly and build regularly as pregnancyy develop into stronger. After completing these seven years of training, docs take ... Embryo selection methods. My hope is for a natural, intervention-free water beginning with the guidance and assist of my ... We now have extra help boards if youre making an attempt to conceive or your pregnancy was an unplanned shock. I might ...
The Fifth Column: The Facts of LifeThe embryo typically makes it into the womb about four days after fertilization; the growth necessary to complete implantation ... embryologists have never been consulted by any American court as it considers issues of human embryology, such as contraception ... "Pre-embryo" was the smokescreen term for an embryo prior to the fourteenth day of growth. By changing the name to "pre-embryo ... Like God in Genesis, it takes the embryo six days to create the right conditions and get everything in the womb arranged as it ...
California Biotech Company Makes First Cloned Human Embryos - Reason.comCalifornia Biotech Company Makes First Cloned Human Embryos. Ronald Bailey , 1.17.2008 2:25 PM. ... Not everyone thinks reprogramming adult cells to make them act like embryos is going to work. If you want to build your own ... CAN WE EAT CLONED HUMANS? IS THAT OKAY? JUST WONDERING, NOT PLANNING ON BUILDING A CLONED HUMAN RANCH OR TRADEMARKING THE WORD ... At least one European laboratory has already cloned human embryos, although to a less advanced state, using a different process ...
Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells - Slashdot... cloned human embryos capable of producing embryonic stem cells. We had to find the perfect combination, Mitalipov says. As it ... Are you suggesting that an embryo made from human skin cells is less of an embryo than one made by combining sperm with an egg ... Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells 92 Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @06:08PM. from the me-an-the ... Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells. Archived Discussion. Load All Comments ...
... the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research into degenerative diseases. The move came despite fierce opposition ... In these experiments, we not only risk creating a genuine human embryo who has no human parents and who has a nonhuman partial ... Scientists Hope to Create Human-Animal Embryo British regulators decided Wednesday to allow, at least in principle, the ... created by the fusion of a human sperm and an animal egg - and so-called "human chimeras," where human cells are injected into ...
Versatile Human Stem Cells Created Without Embryos | National Institutes of Health (NIH)In another strategy, called therapeutic cloning, the embryo can instead be used to create stem cells that are genetically ... that they successfully isolated 2 embryonic stem cell lines from cloned embryos made using cells from the skin of an adult ... When an embryo like this is implanted into a uterus, as with Dolly, the process is called reproductive cloning. ... The egg then "reprograms" the adult nucleus so that the cell behaves like an embryo but has the genes of the adult cell. ...
But the discovery raises ethical concerns because it brings researchers closer to cloning humans. ... Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells : Shots - Health News The achievement is a long-sought step toward harnessing ... Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells. Listen · 5:23 5:23 ... Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells. Listen · 5:23 5:23 ...
Rabbit-human embryos reported / Chinese scientists mix DNA to create source for stem cells - SFGateMore than 100 of the hybrids, made by fusing human skin cells with rabbit eggs, were allowed to develop in laboratory dishes ... Since human egg cells are difficult and costly to retrieve from womens ovaries -- and because human egg retrieval poses ... Scientists in China have for the first time used cloning techniques to create hybrid embryos that contain a mix of DNA from ... both humans and rabbits, according to a report in a scientific journal that has reignited the smoldering ethics debate over ...
Decisions to make about your embryos. During IVF, clinics need to make various decisions about your embryos, including how many ... What decisions will my clinic and I need to make about my embryos?. During treatment your clinic will talk to you about various ... Rarely there may be no good quality embryos and then your doctor will need to make a judgement about whether they think any of ... However, not all embryos that are left to the blastocyst stage will survive and in some cases a couple could have no embryos ...
Hybrid human chicken embryos: CHIMERA created in shock experiment | Science | News | Express.co.ukA TEAM of stem cell researchers have done the seemingly impossible and successfully combined artificial human cells with the ... embryo of a chicken in a shock new experiment aimed at trying to better understand developing life. ... Hybrid human chicken embryos: HALF HUMAN - HALF CHICKEN abomination created in US lab. A TEAM of stem cell researchers have ... Human-chicken hybrid: Scientists successfully planted artificial human cells onto a chicken embryo (Image: GETTY STOCK IMAGE) ...
Human Embryo Editing: Sweden Docs Make It Possible To Customize Your BabyThe human embryos used in the Swedish experiments could lead to pregnancy, but for the moment, they will not. The human embryos ... injected a gene-editing tool into human embryos that was intended to make extremely specific changes to that embryos genetic ... to perform human embryo germ line editing. This means that there should be no changes in the human embryos genes that could be ... Human Embryo Editing: Sweden Docs Make It Possible To Customize Your Baby. Science * ...
Scientists Discover What Makes Human Embryo Attach to Uterus | UC San FranciscoScientists Discover What Makes Human Embryo Attach to Uterus By Wallace Ravven ... A UCSF-led research team has identified the first molecular step that allows a week-old human embryo to attach to the uterus. ... Human embryo implantation is poorly understood, and the causes of many implantation-related disorders are not known. ... molecules on the embryos surface interact with molecules on the mothers uterine wall to create the sticky environment - the ...
US scientists create chimeras: half-human, half-animal embryos'The embryos create better animal models to study the occurrence of human diseases and its progression. ... half-animal embryos to help save lives, particularly people with a wide range of ailments. ... Researchers in the US are creating half-human, ... The embryos create better animal models to study the occurrence ... He uses new gene-editing techniques to remove the gene which pig embryos need to make a pancreas. Ross injects the human- ...
Human embryo cells to create new tissue - Archive 1999Human cloning: first embryo made in Korea or Britain? Archive 1998. *Is it ethical to allow couples to decide the sex of their ... Human embryo cells to create new tissue - Archive 1999 Written by Patrick Dixon ... Should human cloning be allowed - to create a baby. Yes No Im Not Sure Results ... Update 2008: Huge progress in use of adult stem cells has made research arguments for human cloning to cure disease look rather ...
Wait, What? The First Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryo Was Just Created in ChinaThe ethics of growing human-animal hybrids are unclear. But creepiness aside, scientists do have two reasons for wading into ... Although the human-pig embryos survived, the transplant rate was extremely low: about 1 in 100,000 cells turned out to be human ... Wait, What? The First Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryo Was Just Created in China. By ... His other fascination? Human-animal chimeras, in which animal embryos are injected with human cells and further developed ...
Scientists discount MPs and create animal-human embryo - The Christian InstituteThe Christian InstituteThe embryos were created by inserting human DNA into cows eggs. The embryos did not survive beyond three days, according to ... Scientists in Newcastle have created the UKs first part-animal part-human embryos, even though MPs have not yet voted to make ... Some scientists want to create animal-human embryos because they claim it will aid research into developing new medical ... "This nebulous research has been made public at a time when opposition to animal-human cloning gains momentum by the day, with a ...
Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells | KWIT... cloned human embryos capable of producing embryonic stem cells. The accomplishment is a long-sought step ... After all, Mitalipov created embryos that reached the same stage of development as embryos that are routinely used to make ... Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells By Rob Stein • May 15, 2013 ... He says the embryos he created are not the equivalent of a human being because they were not fertilized naturally. And his ...
What can go wrong? Scientists create first hybrid human-monkey embryo in China -- Science & Technology -- Sott.netResearchers led by scientist Juan Carlos Izpisúa spliced together the genes to grow a monkey with human cells.... ... Scientists have successfully formed a hybrid human-monkey embryo - with the experiment taking place in China to avoid legal ... "What we want is to make progress for the sake of people who have a disease. "The ultimate goal would be to create a human organ ... What can go wrong? Scientists create first hybrid human-monkey embryo in China ...
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- Scientists at a little-known California biotechnology company today claimed to have cloned a human embryo theoretically capable of yielding stem cells, but fell short of generating the avidly sought blank slate cells through the process. (reason.com)
- Why do scientists need to clone embryos to get stem cells? (reason.com)
- Didn't we spend the last days of 2007 rejoicing that scientists had found ways to create stem cells using methods that do not rely on embryo destruction of any kind? (reason.com)
- With the appearance of some new scientific tricks to get adult cells to act more embryo-like, scientists, the president and a host of pundits declared the end of the long stem cell research battle. (reason.com)
- Scientists say they have, for the first time, cloned human embryos capable of producing embryonic stem cells . (slashdot.org)
- Two teams of British scientists had applied to Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) for permission to create what are known in Britain as cytoplastic hybrids, or cybrids, in order to overcome a shortage of donated human eggs. (npr.org)
- Scientists have said they understand that the idea of the process - which would create a hybrid embryo that is 99.9 percent human and 0.1 percent animal - might be shocking to some people. (npr.org)
- Ever since human embryonic stem cells were discovered, scientists have had high hopes for them because the cells can morph into any kind of cell in the body. (npr.org)
- So for years, scientists have been trying to use cloning techniques to make embryonic stem cells that are essentially a genetic match for patients. (npr.org)
- Scientists report Wednesday that they have successfully cloned human embryos from a person's skin cells. (npr.org)
- Scientists in China have for the first time used cloning techniques to create hybrid embryos that contain a mix of DNA from both humans and rabbits, according to a report in a scientific journal that has reignited the smoldering ethics debate over cloning research. (sfgate.com)
- More than 100 of the hybrids, made by fusing human skin cells with rabbit eggs, were allowed to develop in laboratory dishes for several days before the scientists destroyed them to retrieve so-called embryonic stem cells from their interiors. (sfgate.com)
- Although scientists in Massachusetts had previously mixed human cells and cow eggs in a similar attempt to make hybrid embryos as a source of stem cells, those experiments were not successful. (sfgate.com)
- The approach could help scientists wishing to mass-produce human embryos as sources of human embryonic stem cells. (sfgate.com)
- Until now, scientists have been unable to answer how certain cells in a developing embryo decide to become muscles or limbs, while others become bones and nerves. (express.co.uk)
- By grafting petri dish-grown human cells onto the embryo of a chicken the scientists were for the first time ever able to observe how cells organise themselves. (express.co.uk)
- In may ways the study mirrored the discovery of organiser cells in 1924, when a duo of German scientists transplanted cells from one salamander onto the embryo of another. (express.co.uk)
- And some scientists in Sweden have brought us one step closer to human embryo editing. (inquisitr.com)
- Those Swedish scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm have become the first to successfully edit genetic material in healthy human embryos. (inquisitr.com)
- The scientists, led by biologist Fredrik Lanner, injected a gene-editing tool into human embryos that was intended to make extremely specific changes to that embryo's genetic material. (inquisitr.com)
- Right now, Lanner and the other Swedish scientists are using their human embryo injections to "deactivate" certain genes that are involved in the very early stages of human development. (inquisitr.com)
- However, a number of bio-ethicists and scientists frown on the creation of interspecies embryos which they believe crosses the line. (wearechange.org)
- The two admit that the use of chimeras is controversial, but believe that many scientists think it is not a threat to human dignity. (wearechange.org)
- Scientists are growing human tissue from embryonic stem cells, a spectacular advance with huge medical potential but raising many ethical questions. (globalchange.com)
- However, all this will look very last century soon following news that scientists have made liver cells from stem cells found in the bone marrow of an adult. (globalchange.com)
- Scientists in Newcastle have created the UK's first part-animal part-human embryos, even though MPs have not yet voted to make the research lawful. (christian.org.uk)
- The scientists acted under a licence from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. (christian.org.uk)
- Critics say the scientists should have waited for MPs to make a democratic decision before proceeding. (christian.org.uk)
- Some scientists want to create animal-human embryos because they claim it will aid research into developing new medical treatments. (christian.org.uk)
- That approach raises the possibility that scientists could try to clone a human being. (kwit.org)
- Meanwhile, scientists in Japan are developing human-rat chimeras for the same purpose in a new biotech arms race. (sott.net)
- The scientists have also experimented with creating human hybrids with rats and mice, with the hope to developing transplantable hearts, eyes and pancreases. (sott.net)
- NORFOLK, Va. (AP) Scientists at Eastern Virginia Medical School have created human embryos from donated eggs and sperm for the sole purpose of harvesting embryonic stem cells for research, according to a study published Wednesday. (artscolumbia.org)
- In this case, scientists approached donors and informed them that their eggs and sperm would be used to develop embryos for stem-cell research. (artscolumbia.org)
- Scientists who conducted the work said several review panels had assessed the ethical implications and concluded that the approach was at least as ethical as using spare frozen embryos. (artscolumbia.org)
- This analysis of how cells shape the development of other cells and tissues led many to examine the organizers found in different species, but national scientific guidelines prevented scientists from studying the human embryo past 14 days (a timepoint chosen due to the emergence of the primitive streak, a strip of tissue that forms prior to human embryonic brain development. (lozierinstitute.org)
- This "14-day rule" was adopted by the National Institutes of Health's Human Embryo Research Panel in 1994 and is currently being challenged by scientists wishing to conduct further studies on more developed embryos. (lozierinstitute.org)
- According to Brivanlou, the scientists skirted the 14-day rule by forming gastruloids-human embryo-like structures-from embryonic stem cells. (lozierinstitute.org)
- Similar to two-week-old human embryos, these allowed the scientists to observe their interactions with the human organizer cells. (lozierinstitute.org)
- Scientists are hopeful that the study on these hybrid embryos and identification of the human organizers can be used to develop cures for conditions like Huntington's disease, better understand fetal development, and aid in miscarriage prevention through further examination of human embryology. (lozierinstitute.org)
- The participating scientists assert these hybrid embryos will be used exclusively to study diseases instigated by mutant genes that can be identified during embryonic development. (lozierinstitute.org)
- Human Genetics Alert (1) has discovered that American scientists have created the world's first genetically modified (GM) human embryo, without notifying the public or the media. (hgalert.org)
- A team of scientists based at Cornell University, and led by Nikica Zaninovic genetically engineered human embryos last year (2). (hgalert.org)
- The creation of GM children is not just a hypothetical scenario - leading British scientists, Robert Winston (a Government adviser on these issues), and Ian Wilmut have patented techniques for Human Genetic Modification (5). (hgalert.org)
- Dr David King, Director of Human Genetics Alert said: "When I discovered these experiments on the Internet I was shocked at these scientists' irresponsibility. (hgalert.org)
- Responding to today's news that Newcastle scientists have failed to create viable animal-human hybrid embryos, HGA's (1) Director, Dr David King, said: "For anyone who understands basic biology, it is no surprise that these embryos died at such an early stage. (hgalert.org)
- Scientists have made a long-awaited breakthrough in human cloning, by using human skin cells to create early-stage embryos. (abc.net.au)
- But scientists say they do not think the technique could be used to clone humans for reproductive purposes. (abc.net.au)
- This is the first confirmed case of the gene editing of human embryos in the US and it gets scientists one step closer to the ability to create genetically engineered humans. (thesleuthjournal.com)
- CRISPR, which is often compared to the cut-and-paste function on a word processor, is a powerful and comparatively new genetic engineering technique that allows scientists to make specific, targeted changes to the DNA of a plant, animal, or human. (thesleuthjournal.com)
- But scientists seem to be using it to create designer humans and animals instead leading to ethics questions. (thesleuthjournal.com)
- In 2015, Chinese scientists used CRISPR to make muscled beagles. (thesleuthjournal.com)
- Hopefully, scientists will use the technology for the greater good and actually cure viruses and illnesses rather than to create perfect humans in jars. (thesleuthjournal.com)
- In groundbreaking research, scientists invented a thick soup of nutrients which mimics conditions in the womb, and keeps an embryo alive for days longer than it could previously survive without being implanted into a mother. (telegraph.co.uk)
- B ut scientists have now suggested that the deadline should be extended to allow for more research into the development of embryos. (telegraph.co.uk)
- Previously an embryo had to implant in the womb by day seven to survive, but it is impossible to see what is happening inside the mother at this stage, so scientists were in the dark about the cellular and molecular changes taking place. (telegraph.co.uk)
- Now that scientists can see the steps needed for healthy embryo development it will help them understand why things go wrong, potentially improving IVF rates. (telegraph.co.uk)
- As it grows to the next stage, an embryo needs to get rid of waste, and scientists do not know how to make that happen. (telegraph.co.uk)
- SCIENTISTS have created a living embryo in a laboratory without using either egg or sperm in ground-breaking but hugely controversial experiments. (express.co.uk)
- In early 2015, Chinese scientists used it to modify human embryos as a first step towards preventing the genetic transmission of a blood disease. (theconversation.com)
- Many people, including scientists, are worried about creating genetically modified humans. (theconversation.com)
- For the first time, scientists have made an embryonic clone of a person, using DNA from that person's skin cells. (flipboard.com)
- The first licence allowing scientists to clone human embryos in order to extract stem cells has been granted by the UK's regulatory body. (newscientist.com)
- The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) approved an application by scientists at the Newcastle Centre for Life to create human embryonic stem cells using a standard cloning technique called cell nuclear replacement. (newscientist.com)
- Scientists from Shoukhrat Mitalipov of the Oregon Health & Science University report that they have finally cloned human embryos capable of producing embryonic stem cells. (betterinnovations.com)
- Scientists were stunned because editing the human germline - the genomes of embryos, eggs, and sperm - has been considered taboo or at least not ready for reproductive use, because such changes would be inherited by descendants. (statnews.com)
- Scientists made 1 small edit to human embryos. (lifeboat.com)
- A human embryo editing experiment gone wrong has scientists warning against treading into the field altogether. (lifeboat.com)
- To understand the role of a single gene in early human development, a team of scientists at the London-based Francis Crick Institute removed it from a set of 18 donated embryos. (lifeboat.com)
- Human gene editing is a taboo topic - the birth of two genetically modified babies in 2018 proved incredibly controversial, and editing embryos beyond experimentation is not allowed in the U.S. The scientists in London conducted short-term research on a set of 25 donated embryos, using the CRISPR technique to remove a gene from 18 of them. (lifeboat.com)
- The SARS-CoV-2 virus (seen in this transmission electron microscope image of virus isolated from a U.S. patient), which causes COVID-19, was rumored to be human-made, but scientists have now debunked that theory. (sciencenews.org)
- Scientists in China have been doing the same thing for the last two years in a number of experiments - including one that make them HIV resistant - but not with out issues. (gizmodo.com.au)
- Internationally stem cell scientists have called for a temporary moratorium on its use in human embryos while lawmakers, regulatory bodies and society inform themselves of the risks and benefits of taking charge of our germline. (gizmodo.com.au)
- Yet hypothetical nightmare scenarios of using CRISPR to create monstrous fetuses haven't stopped scientists from further pushing boundaries. (singularityhub.com)
- A similar story is playing out today, now that scientists have developed an easy way to edit the DNA of human embryos. (psmag.com)
- Potentially, scientists could have made genetically engineered humans in the 1980s, when researchers began successfully modifying genes in mice. (psmag.com)
- The new CRISPR gene editing technology is so efficient and accurate that scientists can almost genetically edit human embryos in a way that is only slightly more cumbersome and risky than in vitro fertilization, a procedure carried out routinely every day in thousands of clinics around the world. (psmag.com)
- A team of Chinese scientists was the first to genetically modify human embryos, testing the technique in 2015. (psmag.com)
- As pre-publication rumors about the work of the Chinese scientists came out, one group of scientists called for a moratorium, writing that , 'At this early stage, scientists should agree not to modify the DNA of human reproductive cells. (psmag.com)
- Echoing Erwin Chargaff, the scientists wrote that 'genome editing in human embryos using current technologies could have unpredictable effects on future generations. (psmag.com)
- UK scientists have applied for permission to create embryos by fusing human DNA with cow eggs. (answersingenesis.org)
- A handful of scientists around the United States are trying to do something that some people find disturbing: make embryos that are part human, part animal. (flipboard.com)
- Model organisms including mice and zebrafish have previously enabled scientists to gain some insights into human gastrulation. (starctmag.com)
- Scientists made the surprising discovery that the insects' displeasure for touching DEET, the active ingredient in many repellents, helps prevent bites. (rockefeller.edu)
- With the first "cellular atlas" of the early human placenta, scientists now have a new way to explore why some pregnancies fail. (rockefeller.edu)
- A research team led by UC San Diego scientists have created a lab-grown model of the anorexic brain using stem cells derived from patients with the eating disorder. (kpbs.org)
- The "external DNA" provided to fertilized human eggs developing in a lab dish "was never used," he told STAT. The scientists excised a mutated, heart-disease-causing gene from the embryos - a gene that came from sperm used to create them through in vitro fertilization - and supplied them with a healthy replacement. (statnews.com)
- The discovery suggests that opportunities for disease prevention are more limited than scientists assumed and that enhancement - giving a days-old embryo "better" genes - is unlikely to succeed, at least with current methods. (statnews.com)
- York University scientists have created the first in vitro (lab) 3D heart tissue made from three different types of cardiac cells that beat in synchronized harmony. (kurzweilai.net)
- An international team of scientists has developed a soft robotic sleeve that can be implanted on the external surface of the heart to restore blood circulation in pigs (and possibly humans in the future) whose hearts have stopped beating. (kurzweilai.net)
- Scientists Edit Genes of 167 Embryos, the First Such Procedure on Humans in the U.S. (popularmechanics.com)
- Scientists have revealed the key role played by a fertility 'master gene' after editing Deoxy Nucleic Acid (DNA)/genetic material in human embryos. (guardian.ng)
- Scientists used the controversial CRISPR-Cas9 system to 'edit' growing human embryos to see what would occur when a key gene was removed. (guardian.ng)
- But scientists and bioethicists who support the cloning agenda are obfuscating this scientific truth by pretending that cloned embryos aren't embryos-just as they did about "leftover" IVF embryos that had not been implanted. (nationalreview.com)
- Despite some confused media reports, the Oregon scientists did not clone a human embryo but a blastocyst that lacks some of the cells needed to implant in a uterus. (nationalreview.com)
- Those scientists and bioethicists claiming it doesn't mostly could care less if an embryo is destroyed for research. (nationalreview.com)
- Redefining scientific terms for unscientific reasons-which we also saw ubiquitously in the embryonic stem cell debate-crassly politicizes science, which corrupts its purpose and makes what "the scientists" tell us less trustworthy. (nationalreview.com)
- Mythological chimeras such as the half-man, half-lion sphinx are fearsome creatures, but in real life, scientists have made human/nonhuman chimeras for decades to help millions of people. (latimes.com)
- Doctors and scientists have made human/nonhuman chimeras for decades. (latimes.com)
- And scientists regularly put human tissue into nonhuman animals, especially rats and mice, for lab research. (latimes.com)
- Scientists are able to make clones from a wide range of adult animals - and have done so in humans, with embryos which have been later destroyed. (globalchange.com)
- South Korean scientists at the Seoul National University detailed how they managed to extract stem cells from cloned human embryos. (onlineopinion.com.au)
- But, by extracting a mitochondrion from a healthy donor egg, scientists are now able to conduct a miniature organ transplant on the cellular level to create a healthy baby through in vitro fertilization. (wired.com)
- A team of scientists at the Oregon National Primate Research Center and the Oregon Health & Science University proved in 2012 that the transplanted mitochondria made viable embryos. (wired.com)
- By following the prenatal development of the limb buds of mice, which have a digit length ratio similar to humans, the scientists controlled the gene signaling effects of androgen also known as testosterone and estrogen. (bio-medicine.org)
- In dozens of papers and two books, including the seminal "Digit Ratio" in 2002, Manning has studied the meaning of the relative lengths of second and fourth digits in humans, known to scientists as the 2D:4D ratio. (bio-medicine.org)
- The series will bring together leading scientists, ethicists, legal experts, science writers, and artists for discussions about existing and emerging human reproductive technologies from a variety of perspectives. (mtholyoke.edu)
- Recently, Israeli scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have managed to generate human organizer cells, using human embryonic stem cells. (bio-medicine.org)
- Scientists in Belgium have discovered how to clone human embryos from eggs that have been matured in the laboratory. (innovations-report.com)
- Their discovery should make it easier for scientists to create embryonic stem cell lines from cloned embryos and develop them to provide eggs and sperm for infertile couples, the 21st annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology heard today (Monday 20 June). (innovations-report.com)
- Until now, scientists investigating human cloning for therapeutic purposes have been limited to using mature eggs (oocytes) that have reached the metaphase II stage (MII) at which ovulation and fertilisation occurs in humans. (innovations-report.com)
- Marcy Darnovsky, of the Center for Genetics and Society in the U.S., warned that allowing embryos to be created this way might lead to a slippery slope and tempt scientists and parents to use the techniques to create designer babies with certain traits. (medicalxpress.com)
- AP)-Britain is inviting the public to weigh in on draft rules allowing scientists to create embryos using DNA from three people-a man and two women-to prevent mothers from passing on potentially fatal genetic diseases. (medicalxpress.com)
- AP)-Scientists in the U.S. have created embryos with genes from one man and two women, using a provocative technique that someday could be used to prevent babies from inheriting certain rare incurable diseases. (medicalxpress.com)
- Chimera research has long been ethically controversial but the latest policy by the NIH indicates that it will be allowed in limited circumstances and that scientists studying chimera embryos can receive federal funding. (inquisitr.com)
- However, scientists believe that the possibilities for chimera research could go even further by eventually making it possible to "grow" transplant-ready organs. (inquisitr.com)
- Scientists have now uncovered several 190-million-year-old dinosaur embryos, the oldest ever found. (sfgate.com)
- Tiny fossil embryos curled up inside a clutch of African dinosaur eggs nearly 200 million years old hint at a remarkable story of evolution, scientists report -- the transformation of an early tribe of plant-eating animals only a few feet long that became, over millions of years, the largest animals ever to walk the Earth. (sfgate.com)
- The body design of the embryos suggests that as hatchlings, those young dinosaurs were obliged to walk on four legs, but grew up as two-legged adults, the scientists say, while the lumbering, long-necked animals that succeeded them were four-legged all their lives. (sfgate.com)
- And from the absence of teeth in the fossil embryos, the scientists who analyzed them have deduced that the babies must have been born unable to feed themselves -- meaning, perhaps, that a loving mother's tender care does indeed have ancient origins. (sfgate.com)
- The scientists then extracted stem cells from the embryo and made specialized cells. (wired.com)
- The scientists' goal was not to grow mice outside of the womb, but to open a new window on embryonic development just prior to implantation - the so-called 'black box' of embryonic development, later than human embryos can be studied in vitro but earlier than ultrasound imaging can be used to view the embryo in the womb. (bionews.org.uk)
- Scientists have created the most versatile stem cells to date, which could boost research into the reasons behind failed early pregnancies. (bionews.org.uk)
- Rapid advances in stem cell and embryo research are in danger of outstripping current ethical guidelines and new regulations are urgently needed, warn scientists in a report published this week. (bionews.org.uk)
- This means that scientists now have the molecular scissors and aiming system to make a specific edit among the 3 billion base pairs in our genome. (vision.org)
- (CNN) -- In a pair of landmark studies, two groups of scientists announced Tuesday that they have reprogrammed human skin cells to act like embryonic stem cells, whose potential to mature into any other kind of cell in the body may ultimately prove key to curing a number of diseases. (cnn.com)
- In the other paper, published in the online journal Cell, a group led by Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University reported that inserting four genes into human skin cells reprogrammed them into what scientists call 'induced pluripotent cells' (iPS) -- which look and act like stem cells. (cnn.com)
- One more example: scientists have made transgenic pigs carrying five human genes. (marymeetsdolly.com)
- Scientists in this country are already producing cloned human embryos using cow, rabbit and mouse eggs . (marymeetsdolly.com)
- For starters, there were no known instances of human cloning (let alone advanced cloning that could result in a fully-mature adult in three days), until 2008 , when scientists successfully cloned a human embryo. (snopes.com)
- Scientists made early embryos of the frog but they died. (nytimes.com)
- In theory - a wild theory - backbreeding humans might even enable scientists to bring back Neanderthals, Mr. Greely said. (nytimes.com)
- On Wednesday 5th September, the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) announced their decision that British scientists can press ahead with research to generate animal / human hybrid embryos, also known as embryo chimaeras. (thenakedscientists.com)
- At this stage, the scientists can extract embryonic stem cells from the developing embryo, which can be used to generate all the different tissues of the body. (thenakedscientists.com)
- Many scientists believe that such embryonic stem cells could be the key to treating many human diseases - for example, using them to replace the brain cells lost or damaged in conditions such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's. (thenakedscientists.com)
- By using these hybrid embryos, scientists would totally avoid the need to use human eggs or embryos to generate stem cells. (thenakedscientists.com)
- Many scientists and research organisations around the world believe that research using animal/human hybrid embryos is important - especially given the practical and ethical limitations of working with human embryos. (thenakedscientists.com)
- The Washington Post is reporting that scientists have for the first time created an embryo that is part human and part pig. (cbc-network.org)
- Researchers hope to use the hybrid embryos, which must be destroyed after 14 days, which would create stem cells. (npr.org)
- Researchers reported in Nature on November 22, 2007, that they successfully isolated 2 embryonic stem cell lines from cloned embryos made using cells from the skin of an adult rhesus macaque. (nih.gov)
- But the discovery raises ethical concerns because it brings researchers closer to cloning humans. (npr.org)
- Most important, researchers said, the paper stops short of proving beyond a doubt that the stem cells retrieved from the hybrid embryos are truly capable of growing for long periods of time in lab dishes, and can turn into every known kind of cell. (sfgate.com)
- A TEAM of stem cell researchers have done the seemingly impossible and successfully combined artificial human cells with the embryo of a chicken in a shock new experiment aimed at trying to better understand developing life. (express.co.uk)
- In the new study, the researchers bypassed the rule by growing embryo-like structures derived from human embryonic cells. (express.co.uk)
- Astonishingly, the researchers noted as the chicken embryo grew, organiser cells dictated the formation of a second chicken nervous system. (express.co.uk)
- For now, the researchers say that they are hoping that the experiments they're conducting will help them develop new methods for preventing miscarriages and for treating infertility, as well as to better understand human embryo development. (inquisitr.com)
- The results of the summit led to researchers suggesting that there ought to be limits put on the studies of human embryo gene editing. (inquisitr.com)
- Researchers in the US are creating half-human, half-animal embryos to help save lives, particularly people with a wide range of ailments. (wearechange.org)
- The researchers showed that the resulting embryos could develop to a stage where they could produce healthy stem cells containing the genes from the skin cells. (kwit.org)
- Researchers led by scientist Juan Carlos Izpisúa spliced together the genes to grow a monkey with human cells. (sott.net)
- Researchers deactivates the genes which form organs, and replaced them with human stem cells. (sott.net)
- Until now, researchers had derived embryonic stem cells from embryos left over from infertility treatments. (artscolumbia.org)
- The society believes the researchers are the first in the United States to have created embryos explicitly for stem cell research, and it was impressed with their thorough study of the ethics involved, said society spokesman Sean Tipton. (artscolumbia.org)
- Rumors have been flying for months that researchers in China and possibly elsewhere were shopping papers around at high-profile journals that reported gene editing and genetic modification of human embryos. (ipscell.com)
- Today, one of the Chinese teams of researchers published their paper on genetically modified (GM) human embryos in the journal Protein & Cell . (ipscell.com)
- Researchers also argue that the experiment paves the way for more ethical procedures in stem cell research because the study did not utilize human embryos. (lozierinstitute.org)
- These researchers should follow the cue of Ian Wilmut, the creator of Dolly the sheep, who has abandoned animal-human-hybrids in favour of the reprogramming of adult cells, which requires neither cloning nor the mixing of species. (hgalert.org)
- Premature reports of its 'first British cloned human embryo' caused one of its leading researchers to leave the laboratory. (hgalert.org)
- But since the human cells used in the study appeared even more fragile, researchers said it was unlikely that clones could be made. (abc.net.au)
- The researchers believe the wonder creation could see mice being cloned in three years time, and humans two decades later. (express.co.uk)
- Traver and his colleagues, who included Julien Bertrand, a postdoctoral fellow in his laboratory, Neil Chi, an assistant professor of medicine at UCSD and Didier Stainier, a professor of biochemistry at UC San Franscisco, made their discoveries in zebrafish, a model laboratory organism for geneticists in which embryos are transparent, allowing the researchers to observe and track individual stem cells with a microscope. (scienceblog.com)
- The UCSD researchers also documented the stepwise formation of HSCs from "hemogenic" aortic endothelium and showed, by expressing a permanent fluorescent marker in these cells, that all adult blood and immune cell types derive from aortic endothelium of the early embryo. (scienceblog.com)
- Researchers have created hybrid rhino embryos as part of a 'Hail-Mary' attempt to rescue the northern white rhinoceros from all but certain extinction. (nature.com)
- More than 1,800 researchers-two-thirds of whom were from the U.S.-made an initial application. (the-scientist.com)
- Initially, researchers thought the virus was being spread by repeated infections jumping from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China, into humans and then being passed person to person. (sciencenews.org)
- Analysis from other researchers has since suggested that the virus probably jumped only once from an animal into a person and has been spread human to human since about mid-November ( SN: 3/4/20 ). (sciencenews.org)
- STEM CELL RESULTS QUESTIONED A technique for making a type of stem cell called STAP cells (shown in green) that can reportedly transform into any cell type is now in question as multiple researchers have failed to replicate the results. (sciencenews.org)
- The, as yet unsubstantiated, report that US researchers have modified human embryos using CRISPR genome editing will trigger a lot of discussion but for the foreseeable future, human germline modification, if it occurs at all, will be extremely rare. (gizmodo.com.au)
- While researchers use this technology routinely, the application of this approach in human embryos is a significant advance with implications for manipulating the genome of future generations. (gizmodo.com.au)
- Researchers from Newcastle University and Kings College, London, have asked the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for a three-year license. (answersingenesis.org)
- The researchers hope these embryos, known as chimeras, could eventually help save the lives of people with a wide range of diseases. (flipboard.com)
- Those concerns drove leading researchers to issue urgent calls in major scientific journals last month to halt such work on human embryos, at least until it could be proved safe and until society decided if it was ethical. (nytimes.com)
- The Chinese researchers did not plan to produce a baby - they used defective human embryos - but did hope to end up with an embryo with a precisely altered gene in every cell but no other inadvertent DNA damage. (nytimes.com)
- Noting the many unresolved questions about gene editing of human embryos, a group of leading American researchers recently published a paper in the journal Science calling for a moratorium on doing such work for clinical purposes. (nytimes.com)
- The model resembles some key elements of an embryo at around 18-21 days old and allows the researchers to observe the processes underlying the formation of the human body plan never directly observed before. (starctmag.com)
- By looking at which genes were expressed in these human gastruloids at 72 hours of development, the researchers found a clear signature of the event that gives rise to important body structures such as thoracic muscles, bone and cartilage, but they do not develop brain cells. (starctmag.com)
- The researchers judged the equivalent human embryonic age of the gastruloids by comparing them to the Carnegie Collection of Embryology. (starctmag.com)
- Researchers have created a new 3D model of human embryonic tissue that promises to shed light on critical components of development-including processes that go awry during pregnancy complications. (rockefeller.edu)
- The researchers compared anorexic brain models with other models built from cells taken from four non-anorexic people, most of them relatives of the anorexic patients. (kpbs.org)
- In fact, the researchers found the opposite: They were unable to insert a lab-made gene. (statnews.com)
- The researchers constructed the heart tissue from three free-beating rat cell types: contractile cardiac muscle cells, connective tissue cells, and vascular cells. (kurzweilai.net)
- Adding two more letters to expand the genetic alphabet can be used to make novel proteins for new therapeutics, according to the researchers. (kurzweilai.net)
- It should be noted that no babies were born as a result of this research, and the researchers had no intention of producing a live cloned human being. (www.nhs.uk)
- When these stem cells were tested, researchers found that the cells were able to develop into other types of cells in a manner similar to that seen in stem cells derived directly from embryos. (www.nhs.uk)
- Researchers have been looking into ways of using a patient's own cells to create embryonic stem cells, as this would ensure that the genetic material in any cells used therapeutically would match the patient's DNA. (www.nhs.uk)
- The researchers used a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to transfer genetic material from adult human skin cells into a human egg cell in order to produce embryonic stem cells. (www.nhs.uk)
- Last week, genetic biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov and a team of researchers at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) successfully edited the genes of 167 human embryos using the medical tool CRISPR-Cas9. (popularmechanics.com)
- The researchers said the method was more successful than anticipated, and that using CRISPR-Cas9 to remove the target mutation should be considered for clinical trials-which would mean implanting the embryos into a mother's womb so the child is born with the genetic alterations. (popularmechanics.com)
- While Chinese researchers have conducted three CRISPR trials on human embryos, the OHSU study was by far the largest procedure with the most embryos modified. (popularmechanics.com)
- NPR reports that researchers in New York are investigating whether it is possible to edit the genomes of human sperm. (genomeweb.com)
- For the first time in the UK, researchers have used genome editing technology to examine the function of a specific gene in human embryos. (laboratoryequipment.com)
- Using CRISPR-Cas9, the researchers "turned off" the gene that produces OCT4 and observed what happened to 41 embryo development over the next seven days. (laboratoryequipment.com)
- Researchers at the infertility clinic of Kyunghee University Hospital in Seoul said they had grown a early human embryo in using an unfertilised egg and a cell donated by a woman in her 30s. (globalchange.com)
- Medical researchers connected with Harvard University said on Tuesday they had begun work on cloning human embryos to create stem cells, using private funds to avoid a federal financing ban. (hindustantimes.com)
- The researchers from the Harvard Stem Cell Research Institute (HSCRI) said the project was aimed at creating disease-specific stem cell lines in an effort to develop treatments for a wide range of incurable conditions afflicting tens of millions of people. (hindustantimes.com)
- According to Korean researchers, the human embryos they cloned weren't really embryos. (onlineopinion.com.au)
- The researchers tried to sweep away ethical concerns by renaming the cloned embryo. (onlineopinion.com.au)
- To verify that these cells derived from human embryonic stem cells posses a true organizing ability, the researchers repeated Spemann and Mangold's experiments. (bio-medicine.org)
- Researchers report growing a mouse embryo using two types of early stem cells. (the-scientist.com)
- Researchers are using multiple methods to study the origins of humans' capacity to process and produce music, and there's no shortage of debate about the results. (the-scientist.com)
- Medical researchers are crossing the crucial ethical line that will open the door to designer babies," said David King of Human Genetics Alert, a secular group that opposes many genetics and fertilization research. (townhall.com)
- Researchers have long used chimeras in medical research by, for example, growing human tumors in mice for study purposes. (inquisitr.com)
- With recent advances in stem cell and gene editing technologies, an increasing number of researchers are interested in growing human tissues and organs in animals by introducing pluripotent human cells into early animal embryos. (inquisitr.com)
- The proposal would make it possible for researchers to implant human stem cells in the embryos of most animals except for primates such as monkey and chimpanzees. (inquisitr.com)
- The goal of many researchers is to produce pigs, sheep, or cows with human hearts, livers, kidneys, or other transplant-ready organs. (inquisitr.com)
- WASHINGTON - Using a technique that may provide an alternative to therapeutic cloning, researchers created a monkey embryo asexually without the use of sperm to make stem cells that then turned into heart, brain and other specialized tissue. (wired.com)
- But when I read the recent Science article describing how researchers in South Korea had cloned human embryos, it occurred to me that cloning might be the perfect sin. (humanevents.com)
- When undifferentiated SCNT-hES-1 were injected into the testis of SCID mice," explained the researchers, the cells grew into tumors that included "differentiated" human muscle, bone and other tissue. (humanevents.com)
- So much so that very few stem cell researchers today are as excited as they were about using embryo cells. (globalchange.com)
- Researchers and policy makers around the world are struggling to determine how best to regulate germ-line editing of human embryos. (vision.org)
- In a world where it seems the news is endlessly dominated by events in and around the White House, one story this week has clearly broken through: U.S.-based researchers have succeeded in editing the genes in human embryos. (cbc-network.org)
- We've been able to weigh those up and take what's a very strong decision where we're saying we can move forward with cytoplasmic hybrid embryos and the creation of those in some research, so we can gain the potent benefits but only in the framework of very strong regulation," McNabb says. (npr.org)
- The survey found people supported the creation of the kind of hybrid embryos proposed by the two research teams - but only when they were given a reason for the experiments. (npr.org)
- the creation of the hybrid embryos has caused some to question the ethical implications of grafting embryonic human cells into other species. (lozierinstitute.org)
- The timing of the announcement of this non-result, just as Parliament is about to debate legislation on hybrid embryos is typical (2) of the Newcastle lab's tendency to manipulate the media and politicians. (hgalert.org)
- The hybrid embryos were created with eggs collected from southern white rhinos and northern white rhino sperm. (nature.com)
- First, the team used CRISPR on mouse embryo precursors to snip away genes that direct cells to grow into a pancreas, heart, or eyes. (singularityhub.com)
- I believe this is the first report of CRISPR/Cas9 applied to human pre-implantation embryos and as such the study is a landmark, as well as a cautionary tale," says George Daley, a stem-cell biologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston. (ipscell.com)
- The paper , entitled "CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes" came from the lab of Junjiu Huang and is Liang, P. et al . (ipscell.com)
- These data demonstrate that CRISPR/Cas9 has notable off-target effects in human 3PN embryos. (ipscell.com)
- According to the NatureNews piece the issue was raised by some that the problems with the CRISPR-Cas9 targeting reported in this paper could have been due to the embryos being abnormal. (ipscell.com)
- Several countries have a ban or at least some type of regulation on gene editing in human embryos, although as the use of CRISPR speeds up in the lab, regulations, and viewpoints continue to evolve as well. (thesleuthjournal.com)
- According to Motherboard , teams in China have edited human embryos at least three times, and earlier this year, a Chinese team reported another first: using CRISPR to correct genetic mutations in three normal human embryos. (thesleuthjournal.com)
- Qin Jinzhou, an embryologist who was part of the team working with scientist He Jiankui, adjusts a microplate containing embryos injected with CRISPR/Cas9 to edit the PCSK9 gene at a lab in Shenzhen, China, on Oct. 9, 2018. (statnews.com)
- It explained that the lab where the student worked had used CRISPR, the revolutionary genome editing tool, to disable a gene called PCSK9 in human embryos. (statnews.com)
- Our results have shown that CRISPR/Cas9 technology can reach a high editing efficiency for PCSK9 gene in human and monkey embryos," said the email. (statnews.com)
- Until last week: That's when Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world by announcing that he had used CRISPR genome editing to alter the DNA of IVF embryos and establish a pregnancy with them, leading to the birth last month of the world's first CRISPR'd babies. (statnews.com)
- That didn't happen, but He did briefly drop by this past August, Zhang told STAT, to discuss ways to make CRISPR more accurate. (statnews.com)
- For the first time in the US, a number of one-cell human embryos have had their DNA modified using the gene-editing tool CRISPR . (gizmodo.com.au)
- CRISPR/Cas9 is still a very new technology and most experts in the field would agree that we must be very cautious about using this technology to create lasting changes that are passed on to subsequent generations as this could have undesirable and unpredictable consequences. (gizmodo.com.au)
- Last week, a team used CRISPR-Cas9 to correct a single mistaken DNA letter in over a dozen human embryos-and succeeded 16 out of 18 tries, a massive improvement over previous attempts. (singularityhub.com)
- Back in 2015, a Chinese team first reported using CRISPR on human embryos in an obscure journal. (singularityhub.com)
- They then treated some of the embryos with the CRISPR base editor molecules and nurtured them for two days in the lab-just long enough to see if the technique worked. (singularityhub.com)
- THE results from the first CRISPR experiments done in the US on human embryos are now out, although the gene-editing technique has already been used in several human embryo studies conducted in China . (newscientist.com)
- The first CRISPR-Cas9 trial on embryos in the United States was by far the biggest trial with the gene-editing tool to edit humans. (popularmechanics.com)
- The era of CRISPR for humans has begun. (popularmechanics.com)
- The procedure was conducted on embryos created in the lab for the purpose of testing the CRISPR-Cas9 treatment. (popularmechanics.com)
- Using CRISPR improved that ratio so only about 28 percent received the mutation, and 72 percent became healthy embryos. (popularmechanics.com)
- To inactivate OCT4, they used an editing technique called CRISPR/Cas9 to change the DNA of 41 human embryos. (guardian.ng)
- The team found that 47 percent (eight out of 17) of the control group embryos survived through the blastocyst stage, compared to 19 percent of the CRISPR-edited ones. (laboratoryequipment.com)
- Previous experiments using CRISPR to alter the DNA of humans have been conducted in China, Sweden and the U.S. , despite the ethical debate that surrounds this type of research. (laboratoryequipment.com)
- The egg then "reprograms" the adult nucleus so that the cell behaves like an embryo but has the genes of the adult cell. (nih.gov)
- such as skin cells -- and egg cells, which have the unique capacity to "reprogram" the genes in body cells and make them behave as though they were embryo cells. (sfgate.com)
- This means that there should be no changes in the human embryo's genes that could be passed down from one generation to the next. (inquisitr.com)
- Earlier in April, a team from southern China came under international fire for sticking extra copies of human "intelligence-related" genes into macaque monkeys. (singularityhub.com)
- Speaking to El Pa í s , Izpisúa Belmonte's collaborator Dr. Estrella Núñez at the Murcia Catholic University (UCAM) in Spain confirmed that they used a similar approach to insert human stem cells into monkey embryos deprived of genes that guide organ formation. (singularityhub.com)
- Some would argue that it is the next logical step in human evolution, but would we have had a theory of relativity if we could have eradicated the mild autistic genes from the Einstein family? (gizmodo.com.au)
- A pressing question, said Rudolf Jaenisch, an M.I.T. biology professor, is why anyone would want to edit the genes of human embryos to prevent disease. (nytimes.com)
- Because of the way genes are distributed in embryos, when one parent has the gene, only half of the parent's embryos will inherit it. (nytimes.com)
- They pointed out that current knowledge about genes and their interactions was limited and that changing a disease gene in an embryo that then develops into a baby could have unintended consequences that would be inherited by all of that person's progeny. (nytimes.com)
- Humans, the latest tally suggests, have approximately 21,000 genes in our genome, the set of genetic information in an organism. (thenextweb.com)
- Partial results of the study had leaked out last week, ahead of its publication in Nature on Wednesday, stirring critics' fears that genes for desired traits - from HIV resistance to strong muscles - might soon be easily slipped into embryos. (statnews.com)
- And the experiment showed for the first time in a large number of embryos that this can be done efficiently and without harming other genes. (statnews.com)
- Polls show greater public support for using "germline editing" - changing the DNA of very early embryos - to prevent disease than for giving embryos souped-up genes for, say, extraordinary memories or unbreakable bones. (statnews.com)
- To bestow the traits on an embryo would require creating the genes in a lab and injecting them - the exact thing that failed completely in the new study. (statnews.com)
- Teams in China and the United States (US) have used gene editing for different purposes - to remove faulty genes in the embryo that would otherwise result in genetic diseases when a baby is born. (guardian.ng)
- We are, medically, on the cusp of being able to save these lives in new ways: repairing failing organs with new genes or stem cells, building mechanical organs and growing replacement organs. (latimes.com)
- Within two days, the human cells started expressing genes characteristic of the organizer cells. (bio-medicine.org)
- In normal reproduction, an embryo gets half its genes from the mother and half from the father. (wired.com)
- In the future we may even endow our creations with genes and chromosomes created from scratch. (vision.org)
- This legislation deals with genetically engineering human embryos with animal genes NOT genetically engineering animals with a few human genes. (marymeetsdolly.com)
- The advocates of these procedures argue for their alleged low risk by reference to the small amount of DNA involved in the transfer (mitochondrial DNA contains only 37 genes of the estimated 20,000 in the human genome). (huffingtonpost.com)
- The team spent over a year optimising their techniques using mouse embryos and human embryonic stem cells before starting work on human embryos. (guardian.ng)
- The team spent more than a year perfecting their techniques with mouse embryos and human embryonic stem cells before switching to work on human embryos. (laboratoryequipment.com)
- In brief, the Government initially stated openly its aim of allowing genetic modification of human embryos in order to permit the development of safe technology to create GM children (4). (hgalert.org)
- Although some would argue that the genetic modification of human embryos for research purposes creates a 'slippery slope' towards designer babies with genetic enhancements, it is important to remember that these studies are governed by strict regulations (the embryos in this study were not allowed to develop past a few days). (gizmodo.com.au)
- The team, made up of members of the Salk Institute in the United States and the Murcia Catholic University, genetically modified the monkey embryos. (sott.net)
- however, they could not request such funds to create chimera monkey embryos. (inquisitr.com)
- In these experiments, we not only risk creating a genuine human embryo who has no human parents and who has a nonhuman partial mother, but we also offend against human dignity by entering into animal reproduction. (npr.org)
- The experiments involve creating and then destroying human embryos for research purposes, which some find morally repugnant. (npr.org)
- No one knows if such an embryo could develop into a viable fetus, though some experiments with other species suggest it would not. (sfgate.com)
- The human embryos used in the Swedish experiments could lead to pregnancy, but for the moment, they will not. (inquisitr.com)
- Thus, the human embryos in the Swedish experiments don't last longer than two weeks. (inquisitr.com)
- They anticipate that future experiments centered on how other cells are directed by these human organizers may lead to new breakthroughs in using human stem cells to produce tissues for regenerative medicine. (lozierinstitute.org)
- Lanner received permission last year to conduct similar experiments editing the genome of human embryos). (statnews.com)
- The first significant step towards understanding the issue was made nearly a century ago in experiments conducted by the German embryologists Hans Spemann and Hilde Mangold. (bio-medicine.org)
- In defending the UCD's creation of chimeras, reproductive biologist Pablo Ross explains, "We're not trying to make a chimera just because we want to see some kind of monstrous creature … We're doing this for a biomedical purpose. (wearechange.org)
- For the embryo to develop and produce an organ Ross implanted the chimera embryos into the wombs of adult pigs, injecting 25 embryos into each side of the pig's uterus. (wearechange.org)
- The chimera embryos are basically balls of cells, and Núñez does not plan on bringing these hybrids to full term. (singularityhub.com)
- It likely depends on how "human" the chimera seems. (latimes.com)
- What do you think about the federal funding of human-animal chimera embryos? (inquisitr.com)
- The likelihood of offspring being a chimera is increased if it is created via in vitro fertilisation. (wikipedia.org)
- The human embryos used were donated by couples that had undergone an in vitro fertilization process. (inquisitr.com)
- They had twin boys through in vitro fertilization, but two other embryos remain frozen. (governing.com)
- Unlike in vitro fertilization (IVF) which generates embryos from the biological components that evolved to serve this function, the two methods under consideration by the HFEA de- and reconstruct the fertilized egg in radical ways, unprecedented in the history of life. (huffingtonpost.com)
- Expanding actin rings zipper the mouse embryo for blastocyst formation," Cell , 173:776-91.e17, 2018. (the-scientist.com)
- Stem cells from an adult mouse have been used to grow a structure resembling a mouse embryo in vitro for the first time. (bionews.org.uk)
- The team then introduced human stem cells into pig embryos, which were transplanted into surrogate mother pigs to develop for up to a month. (singularityhub.com)
- In America couples with unused frozen embryos have for years been able to donate them anonymously to infertile couples through IVF clinics. (telegraph.co.uk)
- The court also said McQueen had not offered convincing evidence that her pre-divorce agreement with Gadberry was valid and enforceable, and said that frozen embryos are 'not easily susceptible to a just division. (governing.com)
- Detractors say selection of healthy embryos or fetuses via genetic testing is preferable. (theconversation.com)
- Marcy Darnovsky, executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society, argued that there are other ways for couples to have a biological child free of the known genetic defects carried by one parent or both: Screening the DNA of IVF embryos through a technique called preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) lets parents choose only healthy embryos to implant. (statnews.com)
- On Thursday March 6, at 7:30 p.m., a panel discussion, "In Utero: Imaging and Imagining" will address artistic, scientific, and political considerations in visual depictions of human embryos and fetuses. (mtholyoke.edu)
- After they were given the protein BMP4, the gastruloids then began to create the germ layers indicative of early embryonic development. (lozierinstitute.org)
- This is a hugely exciting new model system, which will allow us to reveal and probe the processes of early human embryonic development in the lab for the first time. (starctmag.com)
- This will be difficult because it is well known that embryonic development is compromised when in vitro matured oocytes are used, and in cloning technology the oocytes undergo intensive micromanipulation, which makes it even harder to develop good quality blastocysts. (innovations-report.com)
- His developed a "causal-mechanical theory" of human embryonic development. (wikipedia.org)
- The scientist, from Spain, was responsible for creating the first human pig hybrid in 2017. (sott.net)
- In 2017 bioethicist Insoo Hyun argued that given their proposed eventual destruction, utilizing embryos "left over" from procedures such as IVF treatments should be permitted. (lozierinstitute.org)
- These questions were the focus of the second session at Progress Educational Trust's one-day conference 'Crossing Frontiers: Moving the Boundaries of Human Reproduction' in London on 8 December 2017. (bionews.org.uk)
- One of their major concerns was that genetic edits made to human embryos are 'germline edits,' meaning that any babies born as a result would pass those genetic modifications on to their descendants. (psmag.com)
- But critics of editing the human germline were not mollified. (statnews.com)
- However Dr Brivanlou disagreed his team's findings could supplant the use of actual human embryos in laboratory experimentation. (express.co.uk)
- It makes you wonder, if their reason for choosing to do this in a Chinese laboratory is because of our high-tech experimental setups , or because of loopholes in our laws ? (singularityhub.com)
- But until now the legal restriction has been largely theoretical as no one had the technical means to keep embryos alive in the laboratory beyond a week. (telegraph.co.uk)
- When you're dealing with extra embryos in a laboratory, then it does bump up against the abortion question. (theatlantic.com)
- Fact: What you have been watching all of years are human replicas or laboratory grown clones. (snopes.com)
- And we have data from the creation of human embryos. (wired.com)
- The California company is among those who see human cloning as the best source of stem cell repair kits. (reason.com)
- Last week, news broke that a prominent stem cell researcher is making human-monkey chimeras in a secretive lab in China. (singularityhub.com)
- Although it was possible to do cloning and make stem cell lines using cloning in other species, it proved very, very difficult to do in humans," he told AM. (abc.net.au)
- To test the health of the blastocysts, the team generated stem-cell lines from two of the pure embryos. (nature.com)
- Even with ESCs from fertilised embryos, it takes a year to get a fully characterised stem cell line," he told New Scientist . (newscientist.com)
- The hybrid human-bovine embryos would be used for stem cell research and would not be allowed to develop for more than a few days. (answersingenesis.org)
- Questions such as these about cloning and stem-cell research-both for disease treatment and prevention and for reproduction-will be the focus of a series of events this spring on the theme, The Political Embryo: Reconceiving Human Reproduction , presented by Mount Holyoke College's Harriet L. and Paul M. Weissman Center for Leadership. (mtholyoke.edu)
- Opposes prohibiting human embryonic stem cell research. (ontheissues.org)
- Voted NO on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (ontheissues.org)
- Thomson, who wrote one of Tuesday's papers, developed the first human embryonic stem-cell line almost a decade ago. (cnn.com)
- We support stem cell research that does not destroy or clone human embryos. (cacatholic.org)
- Our Christopher White this week highlighted two ways in which President George W. Bush's decision - now 15 years ago - to limit federal funding for embryo destructive stem cell research has been vindicated. (cbc-network.org)
- To circumvent immediate backlash, the team drew the line at 14 days of gestation, which is before human embryos can develop a central nervous system. (singularityhub.com)
- And even if it did, argued Ross, growing human organs in monkeys doesn't make sense because they take so long to develop. (singularityhub.com)
- This means that the embryo cannot develop a human central nervous system. (sott.net)
- Currently UK law bans laboratories for growing embryos for longer than 14 days because after two weeks, twins can no longer form, and so it is deemed that an individual has started to develop. (telegraph.co.uk)
- If this process does not happen, embryos may fail to develop normally. (the-scientist.com)
- Biro, Plachta, and their colleagues now plan to develop noninvasive imaging techniques to study the sealing of human embryos. (the-scientist.com)
- Indeed a number of conflicting studies had proposed different or earlier sites of origin, making the exact location where HSCs develop controversial," said Traver. (scienceblog.com)
- The ultimate aim of the research will be to harness knowledge gained from understanding the development of embryos, to develop treatments for serious diseases like diabetes. (newscientist.com)
- How Do Animal Embryos Develop? (teachervision.com)
- If given the chance, they could potentially develop into full-fledged humans. (singularityhub.com)
- Understanding these processes holds potential to reveal the causes of human birth defects and diseases, and to develop tests for these in pregnant women. (starctmag.com)
- For this reason it is important to develop better models of human development. (starctmag.com)
- Gastruloids do not have the potential to develop into a fully-formed embryo. (starctmag.com)
- In 30, a cloned embryo-a little girl identical to her mother-began to develop. (humanevents.com)
- This breakthrough in developmental research originated from the same team at University of Cambridge which recently developed a technique that allows human embryos to develop in the lab up to the legal limit of 14 days in the UK . (bionews.org.uk)
- Such genome correction of human embryos is currently not allowed in Australia without a licence and embryos cannot be allowed to mature post 14 days. (gizmodo.com.au)
- In it, Edward Lanphier of Sangamo Biosciences in Richmond, Calif., and his colleagues wrote: "In our view, genome editing in human embryos using current technologies could have unpredictable effects on future generations. (nytimes.com)
- C reating "designer babies" with a revolutionary new genome-editing technique would be extremely difficult, according to the first U.S. experiment that tried to replace a disease-causing gene in a viable human embryo. (statnews.com)
- In our view, genome editing in human embryos using current technologies could have unpredictable effects on future generations. (springer.com)
- The team used genome-editing techniques to stop a key gene from producing a protein called OCT4, which normally becomes active in the first few days of human embryo development. (guardian.ng)
- Single-cell genome analyses reveal the amount of mutations a human brain cell will collect from its fetal beginnings until death. (the-scientist.com)
- The infectious-disease assault will continue, but what if we could edit disease out of the human genome altogether? (vision.org)
- We are very optimistic that this will allow us to study key events of this critical stage of human development without actually having to work on (IVF) embryos,' said lead researcher Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz of the University of Cambridge. (bionews.org.uk)
- Sounds more like making breakfast than human cloning. (slashdot.org)
- I was wondering how cloning an embryo would be news. (slashdot.org)
- When an embryo like this is implanted into a uterus, as with Dolly, the process is called reproductive cloning. (nih.gov)
- What is Human Cloning? (globalchange.com)
- What happens when these new steps are combined with huge advances in human cloning research? (globalchange.com)
- This nebulous research has been made public at a time when opposition to animal-human cloning gains momentum by the day, with a recent opinion poll commissioned by The Christian Institute in Newcastle showing over 60% of the public against this research. (christian.org.uk)
- This raises serious problems because it is the first actual human cloning," Sulmasy says. (kwit.org)
- While nuclear transfer breakthroughs often lead to a public discussion about the ethics of human cloning, this is not our focus, nor do we believe our findings might be used by others to advance the possibility of human reproductive cloning," they said. (abc.net.au)
- The breakthrough doesn't quite live up to the sci-fi vision of cloning humans outright, however. (engadget.com)
- However critics say it is a huge step towards human cloning. (express.co.uk)
- Human cloning is totally forbidden. (express.co.uk)
- Cloning continues to fascinate the science world, particularly after Dolly the Sheep made headlines across the globe in 1996. (express.co.uk)
- Human cloning has arrived. (flipboard.com)
- Miodrag Stojkovic, one of the Newcastle team, says obtaining human ESCs through cloning may take time. (newscientist.com)
- The same holds true if the embryo comes into being asexually, as in SCNT cloning. (nationalreview.com)
- Therapeutic cloning, or somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), begins with the same process used to create Dolly, the famous cloned sheep, in 1996. (nationalreview.com)
- Also, let's quote the Human Embryo Authority in the UK-which supports almost anything having to do with embryonic and cloning research-which accurately notes that a blastocyst is an embryo. (nationalreview.com)
- The fact is, cloning creates an embryo asexually. (nationalreview.com)
- Read by hundreds of thousands of people, here are a large number of useful human cloning resources, articles, videos - and comments by other students - about the future of human cloning, what is cloning, how to clone, cloning animals, cloning humans, cloning organs, therapeutic cloning. (globalchange.com)
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- Arguments for and against human cloning research. (globalchange.com)
- Why investors are moving away from human cloning and why human cloning now looks a last-century way to fight disease. (globalchange.com)
- Human cloning: first embryo made in Korea or Britain? (globalchange.com)
- Should we ban human cloning? (globalchange.com)
- Last month's human cloning breakthrough also came with a breakthrough in semantics. (onlineopinion.com.au)
- Research cloning lobbyists like Williamson often claim they are against human cloning. (onlineopinion.com.au)
- What they really mean is they are against cloning to produce a live baby - not against human cloning for research. (onlineopinion.com.au)
- The United Nations has seen the clear danger of human cloning. (onlineopinion.com.au)
- Three months ago the UN declaration on human cloning called for a ban on all cloning - whether for research or for reproduction. (onlineopinion.com.au)
- The Korean research used a cloning method called "somatic cell nuclear transfer", where the nucleus or genetic material of a human egg cell is removed and replaced by the nucleus of a cell from the person who is to be cloned. (onlineopinion.com.au)
- Insignificant as they appeared, the specks were precious because they were, to our knowledge, the first human embryos produced using the technique of nuclear transplantation, otherwise known as cloning. (scientificamerican.com)
- Disturbingly, the proponents of reproductive cloning [see Reproductive Cloning: They Want to Make a Baby ] are trying to co-opt the term "therapeutic cloning" by claiming that employing cloning techniques to create a child for a couple who cannot conceive through any other means treats the disorder of infertility. (scientificamerican.com)
- But wait, while all of these creatures reproduce asexually through cloning, creating an exact replica of themselves, the cloning of more complex species, such as humans, still seems unnatural to many of us. (mtholyoke.edu)
- Or will reproductive cloning of humans ultimately be deemed unethical? (mtholyoke.edu)
- Robl is a pioneer in the cloning of mammalian embryos and produced the first cloned transgenic cow in 1998. (mtholyoke.edu)
- The availability of human oocytes is a major obstacle at the moment for research into therapeutic cloning. (innovations-report.com)
- However, President Bush and some members of Congress are opposed to all forms of human cloning. (wired.com)
- A bill to ban human cloning has passed the House and the Senate is expected to take up the issue this year. (wired.com)
- Human cloning just might be the perfect sin. (humanevents.com)
- There are those who argue that "therapeutic" cloning-in which a human embryo is cloned and killed-is a great advancement for the human race. (humanevents.com)
- Cloning strips dignity from embryos by creating and killing them without naming them, or even properly calling them human beings. (humanevents.com)
- Therapeutic" cloning creates embryos to kill them. (humanevents.com)
- Reproductive cloning can only be achieved if many embryos are sacrificed to perfect the process. (humanevents.com)
- Cloning uses women to create children by means other than their husbands. (humanevents.com)
- all cloning steals a child's right to a natural father, conception, gestation and a unique place in the human family. (humanevents.com)
- Cloning is predicated on the lie that a human embryo is not a human life. (humanevents.com)
- Voted YES on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (ontheissues.org)
- From a technical perspective, cloning humans and other primates is more difficult than in other mammals. (snopes.com)
- If cloning works, it results in an embryo that must be implanted in a closely related species to serve as a surrogate mother. (nytimes.com)
- A blastocyst is an embryo that has developed for five to six days after fertilisation. (nationalreview.com)
- They were the first to clone a human embryo last year. (onlineopinion.com.au)
- The efficiency and accuracy of gene editing is becoming better with each passing year and there is a strong argument that we have a moral duty to correct DNA mutations in embryos that carry mutations that cause severe diseases. (gizmodo.com.au)
- Demonstration that there are no unwanted mutations that occur alongside the correction of the disease causing mutation is critical since this procedure would alter the genetic make-up of the offspring of all future generations. (gizmodo.com.au)
- The team used the tool on embryos with mutations for Marfan syndrome, a rare disorder that breaks down connective tissue and causes a myriad of unpleasant symptoms: loose joints, vision problems, or even rips in the heart. (singularityhub.com)
- The summit also released guidelines stating that it would be "irresponsible" to perform human embryo germ line editing. (inquisitr.com)
- Use the chart and reading passage in this science printable to identify the embryo germ layer endoderm, mesoderm, or ectoderm from which each body structure develops. (teachervision.com)
- One of the aims of the experiment using chimeras is to create farm animals with human organs. (wearechange.org)
- According to Technology Review , the US experiment destroyed embryos after a few days, with no intention to implant them. (thesleuthjournal.com)
- But replicating humans wasn't the main goal here -- the experiment was meant to create tissues that could repair damage from heart attacks and other serious conditions. (engadget.com)
- Professor Robin Lovell-Badge of the Francis Crick Institute added while the experiment was a huge breakthrough for modern science, it may come as a relief it cannot be replicated in humans yet. (express.co.uk)
- The experiment with human embryos was dreaded, yet widely anticipated. (nytimes.com)
- The process involves injecting human DNA into an animal egg cell from which the nucleus has been removed. (npr.org)
- A scientist removes the nucleus from a human egg using a pipette. (npr.org)
- They may prefer a new technique which inserts a human nucleus into an egg from a cow (nuclear transfer). (globalchange.com)
- This involves removing the nucleus of a human egg cell and replacing it with the nucleus from a body cell. (newscientist.com)
- The resulting embryo would end up with the nucleus DNA from its parents but the mitochondrial DNA from the donor. (medicalxpress.com)
- Consequently, removal of the egg's nucleus to make room for the donor nucleus also removes the spindle proteins, interfering with cell division. (snopes.com)
- H owever the technical challenge of allowing an embryo to survive past 14 days is also tricky and has never been successful, even in mouse. (telegraph.co.uk)
- Lead researcher, Professor Nicholas Rivron of Maastricht University, said the main use for the embryos would be to test drugs and solve the infertility riddle. (express.co.uk)
- In a letter to the Telegraph, as yet unpublished, disability rights advocate Ann Farmer has highlighted the fact that, in addition to the vast wastage of embryos, some women have also died from complications of infertility treatments such as OHSS . (blogspot.com)
- The whole point of the infertility industry is to manufacture babies out of embryos… A car factory that managed to accumulate 3,684,656 surplus models between 1990 and 2012 and in addition killed some of its customers would surely have gone out of business long ago. (blogspot.com)
- A better understanding of human gastrulation could also shed light on many medical issues including infertility, miscarriage, and genetic disorders. (starctmag.com)
- The embryos create better animal models to study the occurrence of human diseases and its progression. (wearechange.org)
- It's relatively cheap and easy to use and has the potential to cure a wide range of diseases, such as muscular dystrophy or HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). (thesleuthjournal.com)
- Most common human diseases, such as heart disease or schizophrenia, don't just involve one gene that's abnormal (such as in cystic fibrosis). (theconversation.com)
- Genetic screening can already be used in IVF to select embryos that don't carry these diseases. (newscientist.com)
- SCNT has been used to clone animals before, and is thought to have potential applications in the study and treatment of human diseases. (www.nhs.uk)
- Thus diseases with a polygenic contribution, such as schizophrenia, and common dispositions to diseases will not be addressed by genetic selection without radically increasing the numbers of embryos a couple produces (to hundreds of thousands) (Bourne et al. (springer.com)
- The techniques are meant to stop mothers from passing on potentially fatal genetic diseases to their babies and involve altering a human egg or embryo before transferring it into a woman. (medicalxpress.com)
- AP)-Britain may allow a controversial technique to create babies using DNA from three people, a move that would help couples avoid passing on rare genetic diseases, the country's top medical officer says. (medicalxpress.com)
- LONDON (AP) - New rules proposed in Britain would make it the first country to allow embryos to be made from the DNA of three people in order to prevent mothers from passing on potentially fatal genetic diseases to their babies. (townhall.com)
- The procedures described, currently under evaluation by the British Human Fertilisation and Embryo Authority (HFEA) for the prevention of "mitochondrial diseases," would carry profoundly negative implications for the future of the human species were they ever implemented, and thus warrant much wider concern than they have attracted up until now. (huffingtonpost.com)
- Mitalipov (a skilled reproductive biologist known for pushing boundaries) and his colleagues created human embryos. (statnews.com)
- He wrote that by creating the embryos, the litigants already had made the 'reproductive decision. (governing.com)
- Previous tests were done on non-viable embryos that couldn't have produced children. (thesleuthjournal.com)
- If approved, Britain would become the first country in the world to allow embryos to be genetically modified this way. (medicalxpress.com)
- But using those inefficient techniques on humans would have produced dystopic levels of failed pregnancies and unhealthy, imperfectly edited babies. (psmag.com)
- And, unlike many live babies who are adopted, they are the offspring not of 'crisis' pregnancies but of couples who created spare embryos while undergoing IVF and have decided to give them away. (telegraph.co.uk)
- Since its first embryo adoption, in 1997, its matching has resulted in more than 300 'snowflake' babies. (telegraph.co.uk)
- Today we face the possibility of babies getting organs grown in human/nonhuman chimeras - beasts that are pigs except for a single human organ. (latimes.com)
- Transplanting mitochondria is not going to be the method used to create enhanced babies. (wired.com)
- What concerns me about the possibility of artificial embryos is that this may become a route to creating GM or even cloned babies. (bionews.org.uk)
- Izpisúa Belmonte, for example, hopes to grow fully-functional human organs inside animals, which could in theory make transplantable organ shortage a thing of the past. (singularityhub.com)
- His initial focus was to create a human hybrid with pigs, which have organs remarkably similar in size to our own. (singularityhub.com)
- Because pigs breed much faster and already grace our plates as food, the idea of harvesting human organs from these surrogates-though still uncomfortable-seems far less radical. (singularityhub.com)
- To Dr. Alejandro De Los Angeles at Yale University, the results have merit even without generating full-grown human organs. (singularityhub.com)
- And it is hoped that one day these hybrid-grown organs will be able to be translated into humans . (sott.net)
- Growing organs inside humans for harvest is, thankfully, only the stuff of dystopian science fiction. (latimes.com)
- But there is another plausible alternative: growing human organs in other animals. (latimes.com)
- That's no guarantee that human organs will grow in pigs, but we won't find out if Belmonte and others can't try. (latimes.com)
- Though at first they'll only print "very basic tissues like blood vessels", the CSO of Organovo sees the business potential in using their bio-printers to create artificial human organs for implanting . (disinfo.com)
- How to repair human organs, build new organs and regenerate your brain, liver, kidney, spinal cord and retina. (globalchange.com)
- The idea is to create animals that can be a source for xenografts transplanted organs in humans with a reduced level of rejection. (marymeetsdolly.com)