Beatrice Mintz is a brilliant researcher who has developed techniques essential for many aspects of research on mouse development. She produced the first successful mouse

In 1984 Sabine Meinecke-Tillmann and Burkhard Meinecke published their article “Experimental Chimeras — Removal of Reproductive Barrier Between Sheep and Goat” in Nature. Their study conquered the reproductive barrier between

In 1980 Janet Rossant and

The paper “Formation of Genetically Mosaic Mouse Embryos and Early Development of Lethal (t¹²/t¹²)-Normal Mosaics,” by Beatrice Mintz, describes a technique to fuse two mouse embryos into a single embryo. This work was published in the

In November 2007, Masato Nakagawa, along with a number of other researchers including Kazutoshi Takahashi, Keisuke Okita, and

Through various studies developmental biologists have been able to determine that the muscles of the back, ribs, and limbs derive from

Since the 1950s, scientists have developed interspecies blastocysts in laboratory settings, but not until the 1990s did proposals emerge to engineer interspecies blastocysts that contained human genetic or cellular material. Even if these embryos were not permitted to mature to fetal stages, their ethical and political status became debated within nations attempting to use them for