First embryo gene-repair holds promise for inherited disease
Altering human heredity? In a first, researchers safely repaired a disease-causing gene in human embryos, targeting a heart defect best...
First Human Embryos Successfully Edited in the US
The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers...
Artificial embryo created for the first time in historic break-thru
Image: An artificially created three-dimensional model of a mouse embryo at 96 hours, left, and then an embryo cultured in a test tube...
U.S. panel gives yellow light to human embryo gene editing
Editing the DNA of a human embryo to prevent a disease in a baby could be ethically allowable one day—but only in rare circumstances and...
Could we one day make babies from only skin cells?
In the not-so-distant future, research suggests, eggs and sperm may no longer be needed to make a baby -- at least not in the traditional...
Mouse eggs made from skin cells in a dish
Image 1: These eleven-month-old mice were born from eggs made entirely in a dish. Breakthrough raises call for debate over prospect of...
New method allows first look at key stage of human development: embryo implantation
Figure 1: Day 6 Human Embryo - Different cell types are shown above in an early human embryo, six days after fertilization. Cell...
CRISPR - Cas9: Gene editing technology
This animation depicts the CRISPR - Cas9 method for genome editing – a powerful new technology with many applications in biomedical...
