News tagged with stage embryos

World's first chimeric monkeys are born

Researchers have produced the world's first chimeric monkeys. The bodies of these monkeys, which are normal and healthy, are composed of a mixture of cells representing as many as six distinct genomes. The ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 92 | with audio podcast

Study of skates and sharks questions assumptions about 'essential' genes

Biologists have long assumed that all jawed vertebrates possess a full complement of nearly identical genes for critical aspects of their development. But a paper in the December 16 issue of Science with Benjamin King of the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Personalised stem cells back in the spotlight

Scientists on Wednesday said they had made strides in lab research in personalised stem cells, reviving interest in a goal clouded by fraud and ethical storms.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Embryo development obeys the laws of hydrodynamics

Vincent Fleury, a researcher at the Paris Diderot University, studied the early stage of development when embryonic cells first form a flat sheet of cells before folding into a U-shape, resembling a folded ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Neutralizing tumor growth in embryonic stem cell therapy

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a method to potentially eliminate the tumor-risk factor in utilizing human embryonic stem cells.

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0