Sentences with phrase «into viable embryos»

Thus far, the Newcastle team has worked with abnormally fertilized human eggs that will not develop into viable embryos; the new money will allow them to use normal, leftover eggs from IVF therapy.

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.

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A week later, they inserted viable embryos into surrogate mothers that carried the calves to term.

There should be a complete ban on the implantation of a human embryo created by the application of cloning technology into a womb, or any treatment of such a human embryo intended to result in its development into a viable infant.

The embryonic cells can develop into replacement organs in the lab or be injected into an egg, where they develop as a viable embryo and are literally born.

Human parthenogenetic embryos are not viable — they run into developmental snags and can not give rise to a person — but the stem cells derived from these embryos could still have research or therapeutic value.

Other Chinese groups had previously reported editing human embryos that could not develop into a baby because they carried extra chromosomes, but this is the first report involving viable embryos (SN Online: 4/8/16; SN Online: 4/23/15).

For their part, the researchers believe that once they sort out the technical issues of getting an egg subjected to these IVF procedures to develop into a normal, viable embryo, the benefits of allowing a couple to have a healthy child far outweigh other risks or ethical concerns.

Embryos normally implant at the blastocyst stage — when they have divided into about 100 - 200 cells — and it is and it is known that blastocysts have a much greater chance of implanting successfully and resulting in an ongoing, viable pregnancy.