Induced stem cells

Scientists in China on Jan. 16 announced that they have cloned the first healthy rhesus monkey, a two-year-old named Retro, by tweaking the process that created Dolly the sheep.

Primates have proved particularly difficult to clone, and the scientists overcame years of failure by replacing the cloned cells that would become the placenta with those from a normal embryo.

In an effort to stop diseases linked to aging, a Turkish scientist has managed to rejuvenate cells in a laboratory setting.

During research led by Prof. Dr. Derya Unutmaz, a scientist at the Jackson Laboratory in the U.S., a revolutionary success was achieved in rejuvenating living cells in the laboratory environment, paving the way for major developments in medicine.

Scientists have created eggs using the cells of male mice for the first time, leading to the birth of seven mice with two fathers, according to research on March 15 hailed as "revolutionary."

Scientists are using human stem cells to create a structure that mimics a pre-embryo and can serve as a research alternative to a real one.

They say these "blastoids" provide an efficient, ethical way to study human development and pursue biomedical discoveries in fertility and contraception.

Scientists have grown a replacement, genetically modified skin to cover almost the entire body of a seven-year-old Syrian boy who was suffering from a devastating genetic disorder.

An Athens prosecutor has brought criminal charges against 19 executives at a stem cell storage company whose economic collapse has left thousands of families uncertain about the future.

Charges have also been brought against the representatives of a leading healthcare provider which owned the stem cell bank until 2013. The charges include fraud and complicity in fraud.

Scientists just made a significant step toward the goal of growing replacement human organs by identifying that a protein called Meox1, found in stem cells, is central to promoting muscle growth.

Scientists have created the first human-pig hybrid in a groundbreaking study that marks the first step in growing human organs inside animals.
Named chimera, after the cross-species beast in Greek mythology, the pig-human embryos were created in the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California and are the first hybrid made using two large, distantly-related species.