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Are human embryo models a cause for hope or alarm?

A recent breakthrough in the race to create ‘synthetic’ embryos has sparked criticism. But the findings could be valuable in understanding miscarriages and genetic disorders

Published: 1 Jul 2023

The Guardian view on stem cells and embryos: creating life’s likeness in a lab

Published: 1:30 PM
Model embryo with heartbeat replicates cells in early pregnancy

Published: 11:00 AM

John Howard overrode George Pell’s objections to allow research using surplus IVF embryos

Cabinet papers 2002: PM lifted ban despite opposition of conservatives and religious leaders, including then Archbishop Pell

Published: 31 Dec 2022

Human cells grown in monkey embryos reignite ethics debate

Scientists confirm they have produced ‘chimera’ embryos from long-tailed macaques and humans

Published: 15 Apr 2021

Scientists form human cell clumps that act like early-stage embryos

Cultured stem cells turn into blastoid ‘balls’, like natural blastocysts after egg fertilisation

Published: 17 Mar 2021

Why two brains are better than one

A radical technique that makes mature cells act like stem cells is growing a mini brain from tissue I donated. One day it could produce whole organs for transplant

Published: 31 Mar 2018

Designer babies: an ethical horror waiting to happen?

Nearly 40 years since the first ‘test-tube baby’, how close are we to editing out all of our genetic imperfections – and should we even try to do so?

Published: 8 Jan 2017

Sick notes
Oink! The future of human-pig embryos – cartoon

Scientists hope gene-editing could open the way to growing human organs in pigs. But where might it all lead?

Published: 8 Jun 2016
Scientists attempting to harvest human organs in pigs create human-pig embryo

Researchers in California have been trying to grow human organs inside pigs in attempt to tackle donor shortage

Published: 6 Jun 2016

Beating human heart cells produced from skin - video

Human embryonic stem cells have been harvested from cloned embryos for the first time and grown into beating heart cells

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Published: 1:09 PM
Human embryonic stem cells created from adult tissue for first time

The cells, made with cloning technique behind Dolly the sheep, have the potential to regenerate damaged organs and tissues

Published: 12:21 PM

People and power
Hilary Rose: the problem with the bioscience industry – video

Hilary Rose, co-author of Genes, Cells and Brains, argues that we should treat the medical claims made for genetic research with suspicion

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Published: 30 Jan 2013

'Chimera' monkeys created in lab by combining several embryos into one

The macaque monkey chimeras each contain cells originating in different embryos with distinct genomes

Published: 5 Jan 2012

Notes & Theories
EU ban on stem cell patents is a threat both to science and the rule of law

Aurora Plomer: Banning embryonic stem cell patents not only imperils Europe's competitiveness but also the protection of human rights

Published: 12 Dec 2011

Pituitary glands grown from mouse embryonic stem cells

If the same trick can be repeated for human pituitary glands it could transform the treatment of debilitating hormone disorders

Published: 9 Nov 2011

European Court outlaws patents on embryonic stem cell techniques

The ban will stifle research investment in potential stem cell treatments for conditions such as dementia, say scientists

Published: 18 Oct 2011

First trial of embryonic stem cell treatment in Europe gets green light

Patients in Britain with an eye disease that leads to blindness will take part in Europe's first human embryonic stem cell trial

Published: 22 Sep 2011

Science Weekly
Science Weekly Podcast: Our place in the cosmos, and a test for empathy

Author of The Address Book, Tim Radford, answers the perennial question, where are we? Plus, Simon Baron-Cohen discusses a scientific test for measuring empathy

Podcast

Published: 1 May 2011

Stem cell treatments threatened by European patents ruling

European court of justice set to ban patents on discoveries that involve stem cells

Published: 27 Apr 2011

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