Improved production of retinal cells
from embryonic stem cells brings this therapy closer to the clinic.
Not exact matches
Less incredible, and perhaps only to be expected, is the news that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, the dynamic duo who
brought The Lord of the Rings to the silver screen, have donated $ 310,000
from the movie's profits to fund human
embryonic stem -
cell research.
The new finding
brings a measure of closure to a story that first rocked the science world in February 2004, when Hwang and colleagues at Seoul National University announced they had cloned a female donor's
cell by transferring its nucleus into one of her egg
cells stripped of its nucleus in a procedure known as somatic
cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), and harvested
embryonic stem cells from the resulting fusion.