Stem Cells Made From Monkey Embryos
I'm sure a lot of you have read about this by now but browsing through the blog I didn't see any articles on this yet.
In Oregon a team of scientists has created 2 batches of stem cells from monkey embryos. This is pretty major because monkey's DNA is just as complicated as ours. The team needed 150 embryos to create these 2 batches of stem cells so this is still way too inefficient to try on humans. (It is much more difficult to get eggs from humans, especially given laws in that prevent the sale of eggs.) Eventually, though, the process may be streamlined or improved enough that testing this method on human embryos to see if human stem cells can be created efficiently enough to be used clinically.
Also, the results were far less miraculous than the articles we read about the discovery in South Korea so there are much more likely to be true.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/11/14/monkey.clones.ap/
In Oregon a team of scientists has created 2 batches of stem cells from monkey embryos. This is pretty major because monkey's DNA is just as complicated as ours. The team needed 150 embryos to create these 2 batches of stem cells so this is still way too inefficient to try on humans. (It is much more difficult to get eggs from humans, especially given laws in that prevent the sale of eggs.) Eventually, though, the process may be streamlined or improved enough that testing this method on human embryos to see if human stem cells can be created efficiently enough to be used clinically.
Also, the results were far less miraculous than the articles we read about the discovery in South Korea so there are much more likely to be true.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/11/14/monkey.clones.ap/
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