SC.7.L.16.1. Alien Genetics Students will learn about genetics, DNA, genes, and dominant and recessive traits. Florida Sunshine State Standard SC.7.L.16.1: Understand and explain that every organism requires a set of…

Damage caused to insulin-producing cells by the immune systems of type 1 diabetes patients could be more damaging than previously believed, but a University of Missouri scientist believes that their new discovery could lead to the development of a …

Prof Keith Muir, of Glasgow University, who is treating them, says he is ‘surprised’ by the mild to moderate improvements in the five patients.

The unnamed two-year-old was left in a vegetative state after going into cardiac arrest and doctors thought he would die.

The baby's DNA was the only genetic material being used. With the help of chemicals, the egg started to divide just like a normal fertilized egg would. Then, within several days, embryos genetically identical to the baby were created, from which stem …

Biologists at OHSU, led by Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov, have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic material from an adult cell into an egg whose own DNA had been …

They transplanted genetic material from an adult cell into an egg whose own DNA had been removed. The result is a harvest of human embryonic stem cells, the seemingly magic cells capable of morphing into any of the 200-plus kinds that make up a person.

The research involved a version of what's known as somatic cell nuclear transfer, where the cell's nucleus – which contains all a person's genetic information– is transferred into an egg cell that has had all of its DNA removed. Once the new nucleus …

The approach they used — called somatic cell nuclear transfer — effectively strips an egg of its chromosomes and packs it instead with DNA from a donor. Nurtured by a stew of nourishing chemicals and zapped with two jolts of electrical current, many …

So researchers had proposed creating tissue that used the patient's own DNA through cloning. But in about a decade of trying, scientists had not been able to produce those stem cells from cloned human embryos. The success is reported Wednesday in the …