A form of asexual reproduction where growth and development of embryos occur without fertilisation.
Full-term mouse offspring were derived from single unfertilised eggs using targeted CRISPR/Cas9 epigenome editing...
Scientists in Japan have cultured human trophoblast stem cells, which form the placenta, for the first time...
Two teams of doctors in China are to administer embryonic stem cell therapy from fertilised human embryos to treat different degenerative diseases...
Unfertilised mouse egg cells that have been made to divide can develop into healthy offspring by the injection of sperm, according to a new study...
An advisor to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has said that certain stem cells derived from unfertilised human eggs that have undergone parthenogenesis should not be excluded from patentability....
The UK's High Court has asked the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to clarify if human parthenotes fall under the definition of a human embryo for the purposes of patentability...
Recent news reports have highlighted the fact that scientists are searching for a way to create human embryonic stem (ES) cells without destroying human embryos. Normally, the derivation of ES cells requires that the embryo they came from be destroyed in the process. Many people have no ethical problem with...
Does the birth of the world's first 'parthenogenetic' mouse, created using eggs from two female mice, really mean that men will soon be redundant? Well, no - if anything, it confirms that for mammals, sexual reproduction is the only way to make babies, thanks to a phenomenon known as imprinting. Last...
On March 13, in possibly one of the shoddiest legal judgements this country will ever read, the Lords ruled against the ProLife Alliance. Human cloning has now been formally legalised for the first time in the Western World, thanks to an interpretative stratagem, which completely bypasses the need for a...
Two separate teams have successfully isolated a new type of rodent stem cell that closely resembles human embryonic stem (hES) cells. The Oxford and Cambridge University studies, both published in the journal Nature, show that this new stem cell type could help shed light on human ES...
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