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Cambridge researchers create artificial mouse embryo from stem cells

Mar 10, 2017

Scientists at Cambridge University have grown a living mouse embryo in a lab, from stem cells. The cells developed outside of the body, inside a blob of gel. They were allowed to develop for seven days, which i...

Scientists succeed in creating primordial human eggs, sperm in the laboratory

Amanda

Dec 26, 2014

Health

Scientists at the University of Cambridge and the Weizmann Institute in Chicago have managed to create primordial germ cells which are precursors to egg and sperm using human embryonic cells. This is the first ...

Blindness can now be cured with Embryonic Stem Cell Treatment

Siddhant Ghatge

Oct 15, 2014

Health

Stem Cells derived from a human embryo, have been proved to have caused patients none of the problems scientists feared, such as forming tumours, and reversed partial blindness in about half the eyes receiving ...

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