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by Christopher Scott
The news that scientists have made human embryonic-like cells by reprogramming skin cells shouldn’t overshadow the fact that these exciting results rely on, and will continue to rely on, our understanding [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘nuclear transfer’
November 21, 2007
The Six Degrees of Stem Cell Research
November 15, 2007
Monkey Cells: one step closer
by Christopher Scott
In the next few days you may encounter at least one story about monkey clones drinking blue lab juice, or my favorite, attention-deficit chimps hijacking business meetings. Here’s the real thing from The New York Times, describing how researchers in Oregon—working with monkey cells–used nuclear transfer to make an embryonic cell line. Nuclear [...]
July 2, 2007
Notes on a Parthenote
Today a research group from Moscow reports they have made human embryonic stem cells from unfertilized eggs. They chemically induce a biological process called parthenogenesis (from the Greek “virgin birth”), essentially sweet-talking an egg to divide without a sperm. Naturally, parthenogenesis is common in lower animals like frogs, but in mammals the embryo never develops [...]
