BioNews reporting from ESHRE conference, Madrid: Experiments in which cells from one early human embryo were mixed with those from another triggered a heated debate last week. The studies of mixed, or chimera embryos (dubbed 'she-males' by the media as they contained cells from one male and one female embryo...
A panel of American and Canadian experts is debating how best to assess different human embryo stem cell lines for their quality and potential usefulness in treating human disease. One proposed method would involve injecting human embryo stem cells into an early mouse embryo, a test that is thought to...
Reporting in the advance online publications section of the science journal Nature, a team of US researchers, led by Catherine Verfaille of the University of Minnesota, has shown that a type of adult stem cell derived from bone marrow (mesenchymal cells) has many of the same characteristics as embryonic stem...
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