Monkey embryos have recently been used in an experiment with human cells to create man-monkey chimeras. Scientists have been combining cells of different animal species since 1969, when the French biologist Nicole Le Douarin first created quail-chicken embryos,...
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“Artificial” Human Embryos ?
Can researchers artificially produce a product resembling a human embryo in a test tube, without using eggs or sperm or undergoing fertilization? For the past several years, some research laboratories have been experimenting on animal models. And now experiments are...
Live Birth After Ovarian Tissue Autograft in France
Following a transplant with her own ovarian tissue, a 27-year-old woman, Gwenola, recently became a mother at the Nantes Medical Center in France. Since age 18, Gwenola has suffered from lymphoma. Given that the chemotherapy is toxic to the ovaries, she had her...
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Alliance VITA “Stop GM Babies” awareness-raising campaign confirmed by the results of an opinion poll on CRISPR-Cas9
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