Sentences with phrase «first animal embryos»
For instance, the first animal embryos show up after the end of the latest Snowball Earth event, around 635 million years ago.
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Science won out over the «yuck factor» today as the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted the first licences for research on human - animal hybrid embryos.
Although British researchers had discovered embryonic stem cells in laboratory animals in 1981, it wasn't until 1998 that a Wisconsin team announced it had isolated stem cells from human embryos for the first time.
Christina Nagel, Christine Aurich and their team from Vetmeduni Vienna's Centre for Artificial Insemination and Embryo Transfer have now analysed for the first time the efficiency of simulator - based training in large animal gynaecology.
This appears to be the first example of how the ubiquitin tagging mechanism found by Rose, Ciechanover, and Hershko is responsible for rendering a genetic switch ambiguous in a human embryo (or any other animal).
Researchers were able to complete the first genome - wide screen of a mouse by injecting small hairpin RNAs into the embryos of 100 pregnant mice and analyzing the animals after birth to look for genes that contributed to tumor growth.
Xiao compared the fossils with modern embryos and concluded that he was looking not at algae but at something far more breathtaking: embryos of some of the first animals on Earth.
More importantly, biotechnologists will for the first time be able to manipulate the genes of cells from farm animals directly before growing them into embryos.
University of Calgary scientists say they think their research is the first to show that bisphenol - S, an ingredient in many products bearing «BPA - free» labels, causes abnormal growth surges of neurons in an animal embryo.
In 2013, Peterson and his colleagues Joanna Yeh and Keith Joung were first to use the new technology to engineer a new strain of animal — a zebra - fish missing the GSK3ß gene, which encodes an enzyme involved in energy metabolism and the development of cell and body structures as an embryo grows.