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stem cells

Lab-grown brains produce brainwaves – Expert Reaction

Lab-grown brains produce brainwaves – Expert Reaction

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 30 August 201929 August 2019

US scientists have grown miniature brains from human stem cells that, for the first time, have produced brain waves. The team […]

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Mice with two mums – Expert Reaction

Mice with two mums – Expert Reaction

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 12 October 201808 February 2019

Researchers from China have bred healthy mice with two mums (and no dad) that went on to have normal pups […]

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Fertile eggs created from mouse stem cells – Expert Reaction

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 18 October 201611 April 2018

Japanese researchers have successfully produced functional mouse eggs entirely in cell culture using stem cells. Their study, published today in Nature, […]

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Embryo research hits ethical barrier – Expert Reaction

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 05 May 201603 May 2017

Scientists have broken through a technical barrier in human embryo research and now face an ethical one. Two separate studies […]

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Sperm derived from stem cells – Experts reaction

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 26 February 201603 May 2017

Scientists in China have created functioning sperm from mice stem cells in the laboratory. To accomplish this feat, the researchers […]

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Human embryo gene editing gets UK go-ahead – Expert reaction

Expert Reactions, In the News  |  Published: 02 February 201602 February 2016

A regulatory body in the UK  has approved the first research application to use new ‘gene editing’ techniques on human […]

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A simpler way to make stem cells? Experts respond

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 30 January 201428 March 2016

Researchers in the US and Japan have developed a revolutionary new technique for creating pluripotent stem cells by exposing mature […]

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Stem cells induced in living mice – experts respond

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 12 September 201328 March 2016

Scientists have reprogrammed adult cells to revert to a stem cell state inside living mice. Induced pluripotent stem cells, which […]

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World’s first cultured beef burger – experts respond

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 06 August 201306 August 2013

In a world first, Professor Mark Post of Maastricht University has revealed a Cultured Beef burger in London today. The […]

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Human liver tissue grown in mice – experts respond

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 04 July 2013

Japanese scientists have grown functional human liver  tissue –  in mice. The working  human liver made using induced pluripotent stem […]

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