embryos

Weekly reads: embryo pubs stir things up, organoids crying, & more

March 21, 2021 March 21, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

This was an unusual week in that three papers in a sense collided together related to embryo production and growth, raising new research possibilities but also serious ethical questions. New research: what is an embryo & what is not? The first two Nature papers reported generating the most realistic models of human embryos from scratch …

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New stem cell pubs including artificial human embryo work

July 7, 2019 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

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In this post I list some recent interesting stem cell and science pubs including artificial human embryo research. Engineered human embryo research continues. Scientists for years have been advancing the types of embryo-like structures made from both human and other creature’s cells. In a new Nature Cell Bio pub entitled, “A 3D model of a …

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