Not exact matches
When researchers create «chimeric» mice by injecting iPS cells into early -
stage mouse
embryos, the resulting
animals are unusually prone to cancer.
There were certain boundaries we wanted to erect: no pregnancy except to give birth to a child; no human
embryos placed in
animals for any reason; no fertilization of a human egg by
animal sperm or the reverse; no buying or selling or patenting of human life at any
stage; no child conceived except by the union of one egg and one sperm, both taken from adults.
The patent gives California - based Geron Corp. exclusive rights to
animal embryos prepared by transferring the nucleus of a quiescent diploid donor cell into a suitable recipient cell up to and including the blastocyst
stage.
Generations of biology students have been convinced — in part because of drawings done 123 years ago by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel — that vertebrate
embryos of different
animals pass through an identical
stage of development.
In previous work Tufts University developmental biologist Michael Levin found that patterns of electrical potentials in the earliest
stages of an
embryo's development can direct how an
animal's body grows, and that manipulating those potentials can cause a creature to sprout extra limbs, tails or functioning eyes.
For Noggin protein - treated caps,
stage 9
animal cap explants were cultured with 500 nM mouse Noggin protein (Sigma - Aldrich, catalogue number N6784) in 0.7 × MMR and 50 µg / ml gentamicin sulphate and grown to sibling
embryo stage 15 for transplantation.
Animal pole cells isolated from blastula
stage embryos are pluripotent.
But we do know that, like other
animals, the human
embryo in its earliest
stages consists of three main components known as germ layers: the ectoderm, the endoderm and the mesoderm.
Instead, NIH had seen «indications» that «scientists are considering exploring the use of human pluripotent cells in early
stage animal embryos,» including to grow human tissues or organs.
If approved after a 30 - day comment period, the new policy would allow the National Institutes of Health to fund researchers who want to put stem cells in early -
stage animal embryos to study disease, possible therapies and organ transplants.
Summary: Extremely powerful genes that govern the shape of an
embryo from the earliest
stages of development have been tinkered with by nature over the course of evolution to create the enormously wide range of
animal forms, scientists report in the August 14, 1997 issue of Nature.
Extremely powerful genes that govern the shape of an
embryo from the earliest
stages of development have been tinkered with by nature over the course of evolution to create the enormously wide range of
animal forms, scientists report in the August 14, 1997 issue of Nature.
There are also putative bilateral
animal embryos, some of which appear to be in an early
stage of cellular division.
Some of these possible
animal embryos apparently record the early
stage of cellular division.
Under the proposed NIH policy, taxpayer funds would be allowed for experiments in which human cells are added to early -
stage embryos of all
animals except nonhuman primates, such as chimpanzees and monkeys, because they are so similar to humans.
August 14, 1997 Evolution re-sculpted
animal limbs by genetic switches once thought too drastic for survival Extremely powerful genes that govern the shape of an
embryo from the earliest
stages of development have been tinkered with by nature over the course of evolution to create the enormously wide range of
animal forms, scientists report in the August 14, 1997 issue of Nature.