Summary
Scientists at Newcastle's Centre for Life have launched a pioneering bid to create hybrid animal and human embryos which could treat presently-incurable illnesses. Here, Dr Lyle Armstrong, from the centre's stem-cell biology and developmental genetics department, explains the research to Health Reporter Jane Picken
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Answer: We want to extract stem cells from cloned embryos, made from animal eggs and human cells, which can potentially grow into any type of adult cell. These grown cells ( which for example could be liver tissue or musc...
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