Entries Tagged as ‘embryos’

November 5, 2007

Cleavage

by Christopher Scott
Take a sec and drag your mind out of the gutter.
Now, hard core embryologists and stem cell biologists get excited about cleavage, but for other reasons. Embryo cleavage is a developmental process that ends with hollow ball of cells from which come embryonic stem cells. Hence the high heart rate in [...]

October 23, 2007

Louisiana: children in freezers

Louisiana earned a bright orange ranking in our StateWatch list of US stem cell legislation (for the full series of posts, navigate to StateWatch using the file cloud on the upper right).
There are a handful of states with laws on their books from the 1970’s and early 1980’s, written in fearful reaction to Roe v. [...]