Mice produced from unfertilised eggs
Full-term mouse offspring were derived from single unfertilised eggs using targeted CRISPR/Cas9 epigenome editing...
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Parthenogenesis
A form of asexual reproduction where growth and development of embryo-like structures occur without fertilisation.
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Human trophoblast stem cells cultured for first time
Scientists in Japan have cultured human trophoblast stem cells, which form the placenta, for the first time...
China plans embryonic stem cell trials for Parkinson's and blindness
Two teams of doctors in China are to administer embryonic stem cell therapy from fertilised human embryos to treat different degenerative diseases...
Healthy mice created from eggs and sperm without conventional fertilisation
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...
Advocate General paves the way for 'stem cell patents'
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....
Patenting parthenotes: High Court asks if parthenotes are 'human embryos' under the Biotech Directive
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...
Unexpected breakthrough revealed from Hwang cloning scandal
The disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist, Woo Suk Hwang, whose spectacular fall from grace dominated the newspaper headlines early last year, has been credited with 'accidentally' creating the world's fisrt stem cells produced from an unfertilised human egg. An international collaboration of scientists last week published...
Rodent cells could boost human ES cell research
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...
Mouse stem cells from single egg
Researchers at the Children's Hospital Boston, have developed a technique in mice to derive stem cells from a single egg coaxed to divide. The technique of forcing an egg cell to begin division without fertilisation by a sperm cell - known as parthenogenesis - has been achieved before, but...
South Korean team faked all human stem cell work
The panel investigating the work of South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang has reported that further research published by his team was faked. The scientists, based at Seoul National University (SNU), claimed in 2004 that they had created the world's first embryonic stem (ES) cell line from a cloned human...
