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Stem cells

July 2024

  • Professor Jacob Hanna, a specialist in molecular genetics at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science, demonstrates his roller culture incubator used to grow synthetic mouse embryos in a lab in the Israeli central city of Rehovot on August 4, 2022

    Work on synthetic human embryos to get code of practice in UK

    Code will remove grey area around stem cell-based technology and ensure responsible research, say scientists

April 2024

  • John Cleese sits in an armchair

    Secret to eternal youth? John Cleese extols virtues of stem cell treatment

    Therapy has remarkable medical potential but experts say private clinics making far-reaching claims operate in regulatory grey zone

March 2024

  • Pete McCleave has been told the best chance he has of extending his life expectancy is to find a stem cell donor match.

    ‘This person saved her’: the cancer patients in need of a stem cell donor match

  • Kidney amniotic fluid organoids resembling renal tubules

    Scientists grow ‘mini-organs’ from cells shed by foetuses in womb

November 2023

  • Researcher looking through microscope

    Doctors encouraged by early-stage trial of MS stem cell therapy

    Injecting stem cells into patients’ brains found to be safe and could stop further damage from the disease

September 2023

  • Sarah Cripps with her son Teddy, who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of blood cancer when he was 18 months old

    Mother of blood cancer survivor in drive for stem cell donors in England

  • Embryo model

    ‘Complete’ models of human embryos created from stem cells in lab

August 2023

  • A rat kidney seen with magnetic resonance microscopy

    Through the lens: spectacular science on a small scale – in pictures

    From a heart-shaped stem cell colony to purple gold and ‘science candies’, here are the finalists in the 2023 Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology image contest

July 2023

  • A scientist adding cells to test tubes in a laboratory

    Are human embryo models a cause for hope or alarm?

    A recent breakthrough in the race to create ‘synthetic’ embryos has sparked criticism. But the findings could be valuable in understanding miscarriages and genetic disorders

June 2023

  • Rotating incubator

    Science Weekly
    Synthetic human embryos: can the law keep pace with the science? – podcast

    Scientists have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells in a groundbreaking advance that sidesteps the need for eggs or sperm. Madeleine Finlay speaks to science correspondent Hannah Devlin about her world exclusive story on this development, what it could mean for medical research, and whether the ethical and regulatory classifications of these embryos are keeping pace with the science
  • Prof Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz

    The Guardian view on stem cells and embryos: creating life’s likeness in a lab

    Editorial: New technology raises hopes and ethical dilemmas. Society will have to work out what it thinks

    • Model embryo with heartbeat replicates cells in early pregnancy

    • Advances in synthetic embryos leave legislators needing to catch up

    • Synthetic human embryos created in groundbreaking advance

March 2023

  • 'The animal this is made from is still alive': Guardian Australia taste-test cultivated meat – video

    Cultivated meat startup Magic Valley is hoping that their meat products will be available to the Australian public by 2024

December 2022

  • John Howard

    John Howard overrode George Pell’s objections to allow research using surplus IVF embryos

    Cabinet papers 2002: PM lifted ban despite opposition of conservatives and religious leaders, including then Archbishop Pell

October 2022

  • Rendering of neuron cells sending electrical chemical signals

    Scientists teach brain cells to play video game Pong

    Cells were able to play longer rallies over time, with researchers now planning to see how they react when drunk

August 2022

  • An image of a natural embryos as it compares to a synthetic embryo.

    Scientists create world’s first ‘synthetic embryos’

    Researchers use stem cells from mice to form embryo-like structures with intestinal tract, beginnings of a brain, and a beating heart

May 2022

  • stem cell research

    ‘Medical tourists’ are travelling the world in search of the elixir of life

    Peter Ward
    There have always been charlatans offering a cure for ageing, and cheap travel and lax laws have made it even easier for them, says author Peter Ward

November 2021

  • Hand wearing surgical glove holding a white mouse

    Therapy used on mice may transform spinal injury treatments, say scientists

    Mice with hind legs paralysed learned to walk again after a single injection of synthetic nanofibres
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