News tagged with embryo cells

Alan Turing's 1950s tiger stripe theory proved

Researchers from King's College London have provided the first experimental evidence confirming a great British mathematician's theory of how biological patterns such as tiger stripes or leopard spots are ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (64) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Stem cells poised to self-destruct for the good of the embryo

Embryonic stem cells — those revered cells that give rise to every cell type in the body — just got another badge of honor. If they suffer damage that makes them a threat to the developing embryo, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'Animal embryo' fossils are actually microbes (Update)

Tiny fossils that scientists have thought for decades were the embryos of the earliest animals ever found have turned out to be the remains of much simpler microbial organisms.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

World's first chimeric monkeys are born

Researchers have produced the world's first chimeric monkeys. The bodies of these monkeys, which are normal and healthy, are composed of a mixture of cells representing as many as six distinct genomes. The ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Earlier, more accurate prediction of embryo survival enabled by Stanford research

Two-thirds of all human embryos fail to develop successfully. Now, in a new study, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that they can predict with 93 percent certainty which fertilized eggs ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Embryonic stem cells shift metabolism in cancer-like way upon implanting in uterus

Shortly after a mouse embryo starts to form, some of its stem cells undergo a dramatic metabolic shift to enter the next stage of development, Seattle researchers report today. These stem cells start using ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists grow mice heart muscle strip that beats

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have grown a piece of heart muscle - and then watched it beat - by using stem cells from a mouse embryo, a big step toward one day repairing damage from heart attacks.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists aim to bring mammoth back to life

Mammoths, which went extinct about 10,000 years ago, may once again walk the Earth.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 16, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (54) | comments 133

Scientists now able to view critical aspects of mammalian embryonic development using new technique

A novel approach in the study of the development of mammalian embryos was today reported in the journal Nature Communications. The research, from the laboratory of Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz of the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Stem cell surprise for tissue regeneration (w/ Podcast)

Scientists working at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology, with colleagues, have overturned previous research that identified critical genes for making muscle stem cells. It turns out that ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Researchers solve mystery of disappearing bird digit

Evolution adds and subtracts, and nowhere is this math more evident than in vertebrates, which are programmed to have five digits on each limb. But many species do not. Snakes, of course, have no digits, and ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists turn stem cells into precursors for sperm, eggs

Human embryonic stem cells derived from excess IVF embryos may help scientists unlock the mysteries of infertility for other couples struggling to conceive, according to new research from the Stanford University School of ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Unlocking the key to human fertility

Scientists at Leeds and Bradford have discovered a unique 'DNA signature' in human sperm, which may act as a key that unlocks an egg's fertility and triggers new life.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Obama to reverse Bush limits on stem-cell research

US President Barack Obama will on Monday sign an executive order reversing Bush administration restrictions on federal funding for stem-cell research, a senior administration official said.

Biology / Other

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 31

Personalised stem cells back in the spotlight

Scientists on Wednesday said they had made strides in lab research in personalised stem cells, reviving interest in a goal clouded by fraud and ethical storms.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0