BIMnewsmanagerComments Off on US law prohibits scientists from experimenting with human embryos more than 14 days old. To get around that law, researchers have created a human-chicken hybrid embryo. Implications for developmental biology and stem cell therapies.
BIMnewsmanagerComments Off on Scientists in Japan now have permission to treat people who have heart disease with tissue derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells. Sheets of up to 100 million heart muscle cells grown in a lab will be surgically applied to diseased hearts.