Embryonic stem cells can self-destruct when defective
Insight into genetic control of human embryonic stem cells' fate has offered new insight into cancer genetics and could inform future work in regenerative medicine...
A type of stem cell found in early embryos, which is capable of developing into all (totipotent) or a wide range of (pluripotent) different body tissues.
Insight into genetic control of human embryonic stem cells' fate has offered new insight into cancer genetics and could inform future work in regenerative medicine...
by Abbie Harper
Stem cells from rhesus macaque monkeys have been used to make sperm in a dish...
by Hannah Flynn
Researchers have discovered the earliest known effect of the Huntingtin gene variant which causes Huntington's disease...
by Hannah Flynn
Scientists have described a method to create cartilage from human embryonic stem cells...
by Purvi Shah
Researchers in Japan have successfully demonstrated the development of functional sperm cells that developed into fertile offspring from pluripotent embryonic stem cells, in mice...
An in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) breakthrough has been achieved as mouse stem cells have been used to create egg cells that have successfully developed into live mice when used in IVF...
Germline cells seem to reset their biological clocks around the time of embryo implantation, not when generating gametes, as previously thought...
by Stella Hume
A mouse embryo has been developed artificially in a lab from embryonic stem cells that represents the most sophisticated in vitro mammalian model ever created...
President Joe Biden's administration has reversed the Trump-era decision which restricted federal funding for medical research using human embryos from elective abortions. ..
Recently there have been some phenomenal reports describing the ability to generate human embryo-like entities directly from stem cells, circumventing the need for eggs and sperm...
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