Tag: Embryo
Alabama court’s ruling that embryos are children opens up a host...
Dara E. Purvis, Penn State
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled on Feb. 21, 2024, that the word “child” also...
Lab–grown embryos and human–monkey hybrids: Medical marvels or ethical missteps?
Sahotra Sarkar, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New...
Virgin births from parthenogenesis: How females from some species can reproduce...
Mercedes Burns, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
An Asian water dragon hatched from an egg at the Smithsonian National Zoo, and her keepers were shocked....
Editing human embryos with CRISPR is moving ahead – now’s the...
Jessica Berg, Case Western Reserve University
The announcement by researchers in Portland, Oregon that they’ve successfully modified the genetic material of a human embryo took...
Using the placenta to understand how complex organs evolve
Considering how different they look from the outside, it might be surprising that all vertebrates – animals with a backbone – share...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sunflowers make small moves to maximize their Sun exposure − physicists...
Chantal Nguyen, University of Colorado Boulder
Most of us aren’t spending our days watching our houseplants grow. We see...
