The early beginnings of an embryo as it transforms from a clump of cells to a tiny human is a bit of a mystery — scientifically speaking. We know many of the broad strokes, but there are a lot of ...

Dalhousie University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. In January 2017, I met Jiankui He, the now-infamous Chinese scientist who would go on to create the world’s first ...

Scientists set a new record for growing primate embryos outside the womb, as reported in the May issue of the journal Cell. For the first time, monkey embryos were cultivated in a lab for 25 days post ...

A team of scientists has created synthetic human embryos from stem cells, without the need for either an egg or sperm — a remarkable breakthrough that raises plenty of thorny ethical questions. While ...

The images are unsettling, to put it mildly: a baby monkey whose skin grows eerily green, with glowing fingertips reminiscent of E.T. This is “#10,” the world’s first live-born monkey that’s largely ...

A 25-day-old monkey embryo stained with fluorescent dye for visibility. Credit: Zhai et al/Cell/DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2023.04.019 Scientists have successfully nurtured lab-grown monkey embryos for 25 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a longstanding goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as Parkinson’s disease and diabetes. A ...

Scientists have cultivated monkey embryos in the laboratory long enough to watch the beginning of organ formation and the development of the nervous system — milestones that are difficult to observe ...

Scientists based in China have created a monkey chimera with two sets of DNA, experimental work they say could ultimately benefit medical research and the conservation of endangered species. The ...

Two research groups have independently produced human embryonic stem-cell lines from embryos cloned from adult cells. Their success could reinvigorate efforts to use such cells to make ...