Embryos

... that is that Obama has allowed tax dollars to be available to researchers to use stem cells. There is strict guidelines as to how they acquire the embryos for the stem cell culture/lines to be made. What these are, I do not know. Something about being the discards from a fertilization clinic (either ...

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... how they do it. Here is the link to that article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3345954/Human-pig-hybrid-embryos-given-go-ahead.html By the way I forgot to clarify one more aspect regarding the basic cloning process. I can imagine that when two nuclei merge ...

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... lethal at young age, if the people suffering from it or at risk would choose to not have children or if there was extensive genetic testing for embryos/fetuses at risk, and all those with the gene defect were aborted. I think we're heading towards the latter option...

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... grafted trees that can bear different fruit (classification of species would be the root stock genotype though). We just don't do that with animal embryos, cause we legally can't do that. Sigh. We let nature do it though. Nature gets all the fun. I would love to mix an egg from a lion/tiger with ...

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Video introduction to microinjection: Rosen JN, Sweeney MF, Mably JD. Microinjection of zebrafish embryos to analyze gene function. J Vis Exp. 2009 Mar 9;(25). pii: 1115. doi: 10.3791/1115. http://www.jove.com/index/details.stp?ID=1115

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