Sentences with phrase «donated human eggs»

Then a team in Japan reported success using a very different technique that did not require donated human eggs or the creation of embryos.

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As humans, we've developed ways to donate blood, tissue, organs, and even sperm and ovarian eggs in recent generations, but human milk has been shared since women began having babies.

If the cells can be fertilized and develop into viable embryos, and if human ES cells turn out to have similar powers, such cells could allow researchers to get around some of the expense and ethical questions that arise from using donated eggs for therapeutic cloning experiments.

To overcome that hurdle, glycobiologist Gary Clark of the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia and colleagues obtained nearly 200 human eggs that were donated to research after they failed to fertilize during a type of infertility treatment.