Half-a-genome stem cell a boon to infertility

• Autores: Helen Thomson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3066, 2016, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Nissim Benvenisty, director of the Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and his team have generated haploid embryonic stem cells by using electricity and chemicals to force an unfertilized human egg cell to divide. To everyone's surprise, the cells this generated were able to divide by themselves and turn into other tissues such as heart, brain and gut cells. The new embryonic stem cells could potentially be used to create eggs and sperm for infertile couples. But a more immediate application is in genetic screening