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Creepy and cool ways cloning may be used on animals and humans
3+ week, 3+ day ago (129+ words) The trigger is a Japanese study using CRISPR to delete the Y chromosome from mouse embryos, creating female clones from male mice. “It felt a bit like sci-fi,” said Takashi Ishiuchi, a reproductive biologist. Conservationists use similar tools deliberately. San…...
Scientists make breakthrough in replacing laboratory animals with human 'organ sacks"
3+ week, 4+ day ago (763+ words) Legendary drummer dies aged 77 just weeks after pulling out of band's tour WATCH NOW: Hepatologist Dr Samia Ajaz discusses new scientific methods to reverse ageing The discovery could help save endangered species Scientists have made a breakthrough that may make…...
The Download: Flock’s new rules, cloning’s future, and children’s cells
4+ week, 1+ day ago (861+ words) Plus: Ukrainian drones defeated US forces in a military exercise. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The police-tech giant Flock is changing…...
Cloning could be used to save species???or make human???organ sacks???
4+ week, 1+ day ago (554+ words) Creating genetically identical copies can veer from the cool to the creepy. Stephanie Arnett/MIT Technology Review | Adobe Stock This week I spoke to scientists who have found a way to turn male mouse embryos female. They’ve developed a CRISPR-based…...
Cloning could be used to save species—or make human “organ sacks”
4+ week, 1+ day ago (590+ words) Creating genetically identical copies can veer from the cool to the creepy. This week I spoke to scientists who have found a way to turn male mouse embryos female. They’ve developed a CRISPR-based approach to essentially cut out the Y…...
Scientists Are Growing Mini Human Brains In Labs
1+ mon, 20+ hour ago (1510+ words) What if a tiny sample of your skin could be turned into human brain tissue? Well, scientists have actually been doing versions of this for years. Researchers can take adult human cells and reprogram them into induced pluripotent stem cells,…...
Japan aligns human embryo model research with updated ethical oversight
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (604+ words) Human embryo models can help researchers study early human development and infertility without relying solely on human embryos. Japan aligns human embryo model research with updated ethical oversight Human embryo models can help researchers study early human development and infertility…...
Governance Overhaul for Human Embryo Model Research
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (704+ words) Mirage News Human embryo models can help researchers study early human development and infertility without relying solely on human embryos. As the technology advances, these models are becoming more complex and can be maintained in culture for longer periods. These…...
Crossing Neural Boundaries: Ethical Challenges of Human Brain Organoid Transplantation in Animals
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (647+ words) A fluorescent microscopy image of a brain organoid, a three-dimensional cluster of neural cells grown from stem cells in a dish. Image from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Andrew Kai ’27 is a neuroscience & biology major and he is a 2025-26 health care…...
Artificial Womb for Growing Mammals Is at 'One-Yard Line', Says Colossal CEO
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (624+ words) Biotech company Colossal Biosciences claims it has nearly completed an artificial womb system designed to grow mammals entirely outside another animal’s body—a breakthrough the de-extinction startup says could eventually support its long-term goal of reviving the woolly mammoth. In…...