US lab attempting to grow pig embryos with human pancreases
Scientists have used CRISPR to create part-pig, part-human embryos in an attempt to grow human organs for transplant...
Scientists have used CRISPR to create part-pig, part-human embryos in an attempt to grow human organs for transplant...
A group of researchers have called for an overturn of a recent decision by the National Institutes of Health to suspend funding for research on human—animal chimeras...
A man discovered he was not the genetic father of his child, due to a rare form of chimerism that means some of his cells carry a genome belonging to an unborn twin who died in the womb...
Scientists have identified a new type of stem cell that shows distinct advantages over those discovered to date, and which could potentially be used to grow human organs in animals such as pigs or cows...
by Rhys Baker
A recovering teenage cancer patient is a lead author of a study into the rare form of liver cancer she contracted. The research, published in Science, identified a key mutation that may explain the uncontrolled growth of the tumour...
by Siobhan Chan
Human stem cells have been reprogrammed to form cancer-targeting immune cells that were shown to stop tumour growth in mice...
Researchers in Japan are one step closer to being able to implant human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into an animal embryo. Their aim is to grow a fully-grown human pancreas in an animal, a pig, and ultimately harvest and transplant such organs into patients...
Tissue derived from induced pluripotent stem cells causes 'limited or no immune response' in mice, a study published in Nature has found...
Mythical ideas of 'chimera', or animals formed or forged of parts derived from various different organisms, have endured throughout history, from Greek folklore and Homer's Iliad through to contemporary science fiction. In fact, organisms arising from human-nonhuman genetic combinations are already with us...
Three chimeric rhesus monkeys born in the USA have been described as the world's first primate chimeras...
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