Researchers in New York have created half human-half chicken embryos,
circumventing restrictions on research with human embryos, to observe
for the first time how cells organize themselves.
A team of researchers led by Dr. Ali Brivanlou, a developmental biologist at Rockefeller University in New York, are the first-ever scientists to watch cells in a developing embryo organizing themselves as top, bottom, front and back.
To do so, they grafted human cells onto chicken embryos.
"No one knew what happens after the ball of cells attaches itself to the uterus," Brivanlou says in the study. More details here.
*In the last days, knowledge shall increase.
A team of researchers led by Dr. Ali Brivanlou, a developmental biologist at Rockefeller University in New York, are the first-ever scientists to watch cells in a developing embryo organizing themselves as top, bottom, front and back.
To do so, they grafted human cells onto chicken embryos.
"No one knew what happens after the ball of cells attaches itself to the uterus," Brivanlou says in the study. More details here.
*In the last days, knowledge shall increase.
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