Paper in Cloning and Stem Cells shows that animal eggs do not support specific reprogramming toward the normal human embryonic state. Investigators at Advanced Cell Technology (ACTC) have found that ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- It may be futile to try producing stem cells by putting human DNA into cow or rabbit eggs and making hybrid cloned embryos, a strategy that triggered controversy recently in Britain, ...

Life on Earth may have developed the ability to form embryos even before it grew the very first animals. A single-celled organism that lives burrowed in the muck beneath shallow seas bears a startling ...

In a bid to improve organ transplant options in the future, a team led by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has shown that it's possible to produce pig embryos containing "humanized" ...

The following text is an AI-generated, expert-checked summary of a key research study cited in a feature article from Scientific American’s May 2023 issue: Synthetic Morphology Lets Scientists Create ...

UK lab creates hybrid embryo Hybrid embryos containing both human and animal material have been created for the first time in the UK, the linkurl:BBC;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7323298.stm ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British regulators decided on Wednesday to permit in principle the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research into illnesses such as Parkinson's, Motor Neurone Disease and ...