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US scientists to produce human organs inside pig embryos

Unknown 6:25 AM embryos , Human , inside , organs , produce , Scientists

<div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-top" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div><br/><div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="http://kickerdaily.com/posts/2016/06/scientists-to-produce-human-organs-inside-pig-embryos/human-organs-in-pigs-embryo/"><img alt="" s="" src="http://kickerdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Human-organs-in-pigs-embryo-600x264.jpg" title="Human organs in pig"/></a> <span class="wp-caption-text">Image screen capture of VPro International’s video via YouTube</span> </div><br/><aside class="mashsb-container mashsb-main"></aside><ul><li><strong>Scientists from the University of California, Davis successfully injected human stem cells inside pig embryos</strong></li><br/><li><strong>The research aims to solve global shortage of organ donor</strong></li><br/><li><strong>Critics of the research say they are afraid that pigs injected with human stem cells will become, in some way, more human</strong></li><br/></ul><p>United States scientists have successfully injected human stem cells into pig embryos in trying to grow human organs inside pigs.</p><br/><p>The process, known to science as chimeras, is an attempt to solve the worldwide shortage of human organ donors. In the United Kingdom, hundreds of people die each year because of human organ donor shortage. Scientists hope that the part-pig, part-human creatures will lead to a sustainable way to grow and harvest human organs for patients</p><br/><p>University of California, Davis researchers’ team said that pigs injected with human stem cells should look and behave like normal pigs. The only exception, according to them, is that one organ of these pigs will be composed of human cells.</p><br/><p>Developing human-pig chimeras will take 28 days before the pregnancies are terminated and the tissue removed for analysis, wrote <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36437428"><u>BBC</u></a>’s Fergus Walsh.</p><br/><p>In an article written by Kevin Rawlinson and Nicola Davis that was published on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/05/organ-research-scientists-combine-human-stem-cells-and-pig-dna"><u>The Guardian</u></a>, scientists combined human induced pluripotent or iPS stem cells with pig DNA inside a pig embryo. The scientific process involved creating a void in the pig’s DNA using the technique known as CRISPR gene editing.  The gene editor is used to remove DNA from a newly fertilized pig embryo that would enable the resulting fetus to grow a pancreas.</p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-middle"><br/><br/></div><br/></div><br/><p>The research hopes the resulting pig fetus will grow a human pancreas and, according to scientists, the same technique could be used to grow other human organs.</p><br/><p>A reproductive biologist Pablo Ross believes that gene editing technique could transform the future. He hopes the pig embryo will develop normally and the pancreas will be made almost exclusively out of human cells, wrote Ben Spencer of <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3626562/Scientists-let-hybrid-embryos-develop-lab-28-days-bid-solve-transplant-shortage.html">DailyMail</a>. Ross added they expect that the pancreas would be compatible with a patient for transplantation.</p><br/><p>However, the<em> US National Institutes of Health</em> said that it would not back “chimeras” research until it knew more about the implications. The US health agency has imposed moratorium on funding such experiments last year.</p><br/><p>The critics’ main concern is the possibility of human cells migrating to the pig’s brain. They said that if this incident happens, the process will make the pigs in some way more human.</p><br/><p>The same reaction came from an international farm animal welfare organization called <a href="http://www.ciwf.org.uk/about-us/our-staff/peter-stevenson/">Compassion in World Farming.</a> The organization’s chief policy advisor Peter Stevenson said such experiment which will open a new source of animal suffering should be thought thoroughly before being allowed.</p><br/><aside class="mashsb-container mashsb-main"></aside><p> This article has been viewed 68 times. </p><center> </center><br/><p><strong><a href="https://blockads.fivefilters.org">Let’s block ads!</a></strong> <a href="https://github.com/fivefilters/block-ads/wiki/There-are-no-acceptable-ads">(Why?)</a></p><br/><p><a href="http://kickerdaily.com/posts/2016/06/scientists-to-produce-human-organs-inside-pig-embryos/" rel="nofollow">Kicker Daily News</a></p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-bottom" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div>

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US scientists to produce human organs inside pig embryos

Unknown 4:49 AM embryos , Human , inside , organs , produce , Scientists

<div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-top" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div><br/><div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="http://kickerdaily.com/posts/2016/06/scientists-to-produce-human-organs-inside-pig-embryos/human-organs-in-pigs-embryo/"><img alt="" s="" src="http://kickerdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Human-organs-in-pigs-embryo-600x264.jpg" title="Human organs in pig"/></a> <span class="wp-caption-text">Image screen capture of VPro International’s video via YouTube</span> </div><br/><aside class="mashsb-container mashsb-main"></aside><ul><li><strong>Scientists from the University of California, Davis successfully injected human stem cells inside pig embryos</strong></li><br/><li><strong>The research aims to solve global shortage of organ donor</strong></li><br/><li><strong>Critics of the research say they are afraid that pigs injected with human stem cells will become, in some way, more human</strong></li><br/></ul><p>United States scientists have successfully injected human stem cells into pig embryos in trying to grow human organs inside pigs.</p><br/><p>The process, known to science as chimeras, is an attempt to solve the worldwide shortage of human organ donors. In the United Kingdom, hundreds of people die each year because of human organ donor shortage. Scientists hope that the part-pig, part-human creatures will lead to a sustainable way to grow and harvest human organs for patients</p><br/><p>University of California, Davis researchers’ team said that pigs injected with human stem cells should look and behave like normal pigs. The only exception, according to them, is that one organ of these pigs will be composed of human cells.</p><br/><p>Developing human-pig chimeras will take 28 days before the pregnancies are terminated and the tissue removed for analysis, wrote <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36437428"><u>BBC</u></a>’s Fergus Walsh.</p><br/><p>In an article written by Kevin Rawlinson and Nicola Davis that was published on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/05/organ-research-scientists-combine-human-stem-cells-and-pig-dna"><u>The Guardian</u></a>, scientists combined human induced pluripotent or iPS stem cells with pig DNA inside a pig embryo. The scientific process involved creating a void in the pig’s DNA using the technique known as CRISPR gene editing.  The gene editor is used to remove DNA from a newly fertilized pig embryo that would enable the resulting fetus to grow a pancreas.</p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-middle"><br/><br/></div><br/></div><br/><p>The research hopes the resulting pig fetus will grow a human pancreas and, according to scientists, the same technique could be used to grow other human organs.</p><br/><p>A reproductive biologist Pablo Ross believes that gene editing technique could transform the future. He hopes the pig embryo will develop normally and the pancreas will be made almost exclusively out of human cells, wrote Ben Spencer of <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3626562/Scientists-let-hybrid-embryos-develop-lab-28-days-bid-solve-transplant-shortage.html">DailyMail</a>. Ross added they expect that the pancreas would be compatible with a patient for transplantation.</p><br/><p>However, the<em> US National Institutes of Health</em> said that it would not back “chimeras” research until it knew more about the implications. The US health agency has imposed moratorium on funding such experiments last year.</p><br/><p>The critics’ main concern is the possibility of human cells migrating to the pig’s brain. They said that if this incident happens, the process will make the pigs in some way more human.</p><br/><p>The same reaction came from an international farm animal welfare organization called <a href="http://www.ciwf.org.uk/about-us/our-staff/peter-stevenson/">Compassion in World Farming.</a> The organization’s chief policy advisor Peter Stevenson said such experiment which will open a new source of animal suffering should be thought thoroughly before being allowed.</p><br/><aside class="mashsb-container mashsb-main"></aside> <center> </center><br/><p><strong><a href="https://blockads.fivefilters.org">Let’s block ads!</a></strong> <a href="https://github.com/fivefilters/block-ads/wiki/There-are-no-acceptable-ads">(Why?)</a></p><br/><p><a href="http://kickerdaily.com/posts/2016/06/scientists-to-produce-human-organs-inside-pig-embryos/" rel="nofollow">Kicker Daily News</a></p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-bottom" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div>

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Scientists grow two-week-old human embryos in lab

Unknown 8:28 PM embryos , Grow , Human , Scientists , twoweekold

<div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-top" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div><br/><div class="post-thumbnail"><a href="http://kickerdaily.com/scientists-grow-two-week-old-human-embryos-in-lab/embryos/"><img alt="" src="http://kickerdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/embryos-590x264.png" title="embryos"/></a> <span class="wp-caption-text">Image from the University of Cambridge website</span></div><br/><aside class="mashsb-container mashsb-main"></aside><ul><li><strong>Scientists have grown and observed human embryos for 2 weeks, gaining new insights on what the researchers would describe as “the most enigmatic and mysterious stage of human development”</strong></li><br/><li><strong>Scientists have surpassed the previous record of 7 days of growing a human embryo outside of a womb before implantation into a womb for its survival and further development</strong></li><br/><li><strong>The latest breakthrough, although may help improve in-vitro fertilization treatments and regenerative medicine, raises ethical issues with a limit ban on developing human embryos in a lab currently in place</strong></li><br/></ul><p>For the first time, scientists have grown human embryos for 2 weeks outside of a mother and entirely in a lab. In their splendid scientific achievement, the researchers found new and exciting insights about human embryonic development.</p><br/><p>In previous studies, human embryos have only been studied as a culture in a lab dish for until the 7<sup>th</sup> day of development and then implanted into the mother’s womb for the embryo to survive and further develop. This new research marks the first time the human embryos have been grown in-vitro past this stage, <a href="http://www.techtimes.com/articles/156060/20160504/human-embryos-grown-two-weeks-outside-womb.htm">Tech Times</a> wrote.</p><br/><p>“Implantation is a milestone in human development as it is from this stage onwards that the embryo really begins to take shape and the overall body plan are [sic] decided. It is also the stage of pregnancy at which many developmental defects can become acquired. But until now, it has been impossible to study this in human embryos,” said Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a professor in the University of Cambridge who co-led the research.</p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-middle"><br/><br/></div><br/></div><br/><p>This latest breakthrough in science sparks new debates on the ethical implications of human engineering. According to the researchers, new information gathered from this study should help improve in-vitro fertilization treatments and progress in regenerative medicine.</p><br/><p>But the research raises an ethical issue of an international law banning the development of human embryos beyond 14 days, it suggests to revisit the current limit put in place, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-embryos-idUSKCN0XV260?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews">Reuters</a> wrote.</p><br/><p>“Longer cultures could provide absolutely critical information for basic human biology, but this would of course raise the next question – of where we should put the next limit.” Zernicka-Goetz told the press.</p><br/><p>Sarah Norcross, the Director of the Progress Educational Trust, a charity which campaigns for people affected by infertility and genetic conditions, said “a public discussion of the rights and wrongs of this would need to follow before any change in law could be contemplated.”</p><br/><aside class="mashsb-container mashsb-main"></aside> <center> </center><br/><p><strong><a href="https://blockads.fivefilters.org">Let’s block ads!</a></strong> <a href="https://github.com/fivefilters/block-ads/wiki/There-are-no-acceptable-ads">(Why?)</a></p><br/><p><a href="http://kickerdaily.com/scientists-grow-two-week-old-human-embryos-in-lab/" rel="nofollow">Kicker Daily News</a></p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-bottom" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div>

Image from the University of Cambridge website Scientists have grown and observed human embryos for 2 weeks, gaining new insights on what t...

Scientists grow two-week-old human embryos in lab

Unknown 6:52 PM embryos , Grow , Human , Scientists , twoweekold

<div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-top" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div><br/><div class="post-thumbnail"><a href="http://kickerdaily.com/scientists-grow-two-week-old-human-embryos-in-lab/embryos/"><img alt="" src="http://kickerdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/embryos-590x264.png" title="embryos"/></a> <span class="wp-caption-text">Image from the University of Cambridge website</span></div><br/><aside class="mashsb-container mashsb-main"></aside><ul><li><strong>Scientists have grown and observed human embryos for 2 weeks, gaining new insights on what the researchers would describe as “the most enigmatic and mysterious stage of human development”</strong></li><br/><li><strong>Scientists have surpassed the previous record of 7 days of growing a human embryo outside of a womb before implantation into a womb for its survival and further development</strong></li><br/><li><strong>The latest breakthrough, although may help improve in-vitro fertilization treatments and regenerative medicine, raises ethical issues with a limit ban on developing human embryos in a lab currently in place</strong></li><br/></ul><p>For the first time, scientists have grown human embryos for 2 weeks outside of a mother and entirely in a lab. In their splendid scientific achievement, the researchers found new and exciting insights about human embryonic development.</p><br/><p>In previous studies, human embryos have only been studied as a culture in a lab dish for until the 7<sup>th</sup> day of development and then implanted into the mother’s womb for the embryo to survive and further develop. This new research marks the first time the human embryos have been grown in-vitro past this stage, <a href="http://www.techtimes.com/articles/156060/20160504/human-embryos-grown-two-weeks-outside-womb.htm">Tech Times</a> wrote.</p><br/><p>“Implantation is a milestone in human development as it is from this stage onwards that the embryo really begins to take shape and the overall body plan are [sic] decided. It is also the stage of pregnancy at which many developmental defects can become acquired. But until now, it has been impossible to study this in human embryos,” said Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a professor in the University of Cambridge who co-led the research.</p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-middle"><br/><br/></div><br/></div><br/><p>This latest breakthrough in science sparks new debates on the ethical implications of human engineering. According to the researchers, new information gathered from this study should help improve in-vitro fertilization treatments and progress in regenerative medicine.</p><br/><p>But the research raises an ethical issue of an international law banning the development of human embryos beyond 14 days, it suggests to revisit the current limit put in place, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-embryos-idUSKCN0XV260?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews">Reuters</a> wrote.</p><br/><p>“Longer cultures could provide absolutely critical information for basic human biology, but this would of course raise the next question – of where we should put the next limit.” Zernicka-Goetz told the press.</p><br/><p>Sarah Norcross, the Director of the Progress Educational Trust, a charity which campaigns for people affected by infertility and genetic conditions, said “a public discussion of the rights and wrongs of this would need to follow before any change in law could be contemplated.”</p><br/><aside class="mashsb-container mashsb-main"></aside> <center> </center><br/><p><strong><a href="https://blockads.fivefilters.org">Let’s block ads!</a></strong> <a href="https://github.com/fivefilters/block-ads/wiki/There-are-no-acceptable-ads">(Why?)</a></p><br/><p><a href="http://kickerdaily.com/scientists-grow-two-week-old-human-embryos-in-lab/" rel="nofollow">Kicker Daily News</a></p><br/><div class="easy-ads"><div class="easy-ads-lite easy-ads-lite-bidvertiser-bottom" style="display:block;text-align:center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3942681860132668" data-ad-slot="4831328630" data-ad-format="auto"></ins><br/></div><br/></div>

Image from the University of Cambridge website Scientists have grown and observed human embryos for 2 weeks, gaining new insights on what t...