DAYS OF NOAH: Half Human-Half Chicken abomination created in lab…
A team of stem cell researchers has done the seemingly impossible and
successfully combined artificial human cells with the embryo of a
chicken in a shock new experiment aimed at trying to better understand
developing life. Until now, scientists have been unable to answer how
certain cells in a developing embryo decide to become muscles or limbs,
while others become bones and nerves. But now researchers led by Dr Ali Brivanlou, from Rockefeller University
in New York, have achieved the unimaginable in a shock experiment. By
grafting petri dish-grown human cells onto the embryo of a chicken the
scientists were for the first time ever able to observe how cells
organize themselves. The study was published this week in the science
journal Nature where the scientists unveiled the inner machinations of
so-called ‘organiser cells’.
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