Company Clones Embryos; Media Obediently Reports Hype
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A California company says it has cloned two human embryos. Will someone please tell us what the big deal is?
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Beacon Hill's new enthusiasm for embryonic stem-cell research would seem to be good news for the biotechnology industry.
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WASHINGTON -- A procedure that encourages an egg to begin embryo development without being fertilized could suggest a new way to produce stem cells, at least for certain patients.
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The experiment is part of an explosion in the new field of synthetic biology.
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Hwang on a minute... An obscure California biotech company says it has cloned the first embryos from adult human DNA. It's a claim that has been made by frauds and crackpot cults in the past, but the news been greeted with a sceptical welcome by other scientists.â¦
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A California company now offers IVF patients the option of creating and storing their own stem cells
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Biotech company buys itself a bigger future.
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Scientists at a small biotechnology company say they have used cloning to create human embryos from the skin cells of two men.
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Two scientists have asked Harvard University's ethical review board for permission to produce cloned human embryos for disease research.
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If a new method works, scientists could derive embryonic stem cells -- without destroying embryos -- from more than 3,000 cells discarded annually at fertility clinics. In Bodyhack.
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Biological heart pacemakers made from human embryo cells have been successfully tested in pigs, raising the possibility that tissue transplants could in future replace electronic pacemakers.
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A biotechnology company has developed a new way of creating stem cells without destroying human embryos, billing it as a potential solution to a contentious political and ethical debate.
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PHILADELPHIA _ When the subject is stem cell research, the term embryo is not only ethically charged, but increasingly hard to define.  Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers have stretched the definition even further.
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Adding a key chemical to the fluid in which IVF embryos grow could help prevent developmental problems in babies, scientists suggest.
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The scientific journal Nature has issued a clarification of a recent report that human embryonic stem cells can be derived without harm to the embryo, but has affirmed the reportÂs validity.
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In a big step toward a long-sought goal, three teams of scientists say they've produced the equivalent of embryonic stem cells, at least in mice, without taking the controversial step of destroying embryos.
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"The fear is that (scientists) are trying to breed a human with some other creature"  British authorities decided Wednesday to permit research that uses animal eggs to create human stem cells - studies experts say are critical to unlocking treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other ... via The South Mississippi Sun Herald