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Embryonic stem cells become germ cells
The study, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, allows scientists to observe germ cells -- the cells that eventually produce sperm and eggs -- that were previously inaccessible.
"This achievement opens a new window into what was only recently a hidden stage of human development," said Dr. Susan Shurin, acting director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. "Laboratory observation of human germ cells has the potential to yield important clues to the origins of unexplained infertility and to the genesis of many birth defects and chromosomal disorders."
The study conducted by Kehkooi Kee, Vanessa Angeles, Martha Flores, Ha Nam Nguyen and Renee Reijo Pera, all of Stanford University School of Medicine appears in the early online edition of the journal Nature.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 10/28/2009
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10-29-2009 20:56
David wrote:
germ cells
This not really new. Scientist were doing similar work in the 1960's. Some left the field when the fact that they could create life was found to be too frightening for them.
The effects of this could range from uplifting, in the right hands, to dire, in the wrong one. Third-party neutral supervison is what is needed.
The effects of this could range from uplifting, in the right hands, to dire, in the wrong one. Third-party neutral supervison is what is needed.
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