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Protein Complex Crucial for Triggering Embryo Development
Enzyme wipes developmental slate clean, giving cells a fresh startThursday, 07 January 2010The DNA contained within each of our cells is exactly the same, yet different types of cells – skin cells, heart cells, brain cells – perform very differen...
Mitochondrial Gene Replacement in Primate Offspring and Embryonic Stem Cells
Breakthrough could help break the chain of several maternally-based diseases passed from generation to generationWednesday, 26 August 2009Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University's Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) believe ...
Call for Public Debates on Future Uses of Stem Cells
Science is running ahead of public debate and guidelines to grapple with use of stem cell-derived eggs and spermThursday, 02 July 2009More than 40 scientists, bioethicists, lawyers and science journal editors are calling on their colleagues, policy m...
Clue to How Stem Cells Form
Emory study yields evidence of processes that erases epigenetic signalsFriday, 17 April 2009An Emory University study shows some of the first direct evidence of a process required for epigenetic reprogramming between generations – a finding that co...
The Egg Makes Sure that Sperm Don't Get Too Old
Egg cells can extend the telomeres of a fertilising sperm cellThursday, 26 March 2009In contrast to women, men are fertile throughout life, but research at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has now shown that a fertilising sp...
Therapeutic Cloning Gets a Boost with New Research Findings
San Antonio and Honolulu researchers make important discoveries about point mutation rates in cloned mouse foetusesThursday, 26 March 2009Germ cells, the cells which give rise to a mammal's sperm or eggs, exhibit a five to ten-fold lower rate of spon...
Chinese Researchers Make Cloned Human Blastocysts
SCNT Using an Alternative Enucleation Method for Patient-specific Embryonic Stem Cells (ESCs)Tuesday, 03 February 2009China Daily report that a research team at the Shandong Stem Cell Engineering Research Center has successfully cloned five human bla...
Animal Eggs Not Suitable Substitutes to Produce Stem Cells
Eggs of another species turns off the genes needed to make an embryo instead of turning them onMonday, 02 February 2009Since the cloning of Dolly the Sheep over a decade ago, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) has been considered a promising way to...
Human iPS Cells Reprogrammed into Germ Cell Precursors
Discovery may lead to new treatments for infertilityTuesday, 27 January 2009For the first time, UCLA researchers have reprogrammed human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into the cells that eventually become eggs and sperm, possibly opening the d...
GM Goats Make Anti-clotting Drug in Their Milk
FDA approval is pendingSaturday, 10 January 2009An anti-clotting drug made from the milk of genetically engineered goats moved closer to government approval Wednesday after experts at the Food and Drug Administration reported that the medication work...
Most Women Report Satisfaction with Egg Donation
Some claim problemsWednesday, 17 December 2008Two-thirds of women who donated eggs to fertility clinics reported satisfaction with the process, but 16 percent complained of subsequent physical symptoms and 20 percent reported lasting psychological ef...
What to Do With Leftover Embryos?
Largest study of fertility patients shows concerns about embryo dispositionFriday, 05 December 2008Fertility patients who are done having children feel responsible for the stored, frozen embryos left over from their treatment, yet more than half are ...
