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Telomeres and Telomerase in Cellular Aging (Senescence)
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Feb 11, 2015
Telomeres are sequences of DNA on the ends of chromosomes that protect chromosomes from sticking to each other or tangling, which could cause…
TelomeraseGreider, Carol W.Wistar Institute of Anatomy and BiologyAgingDNA
"Hybrids and Chimeras: A report on the findings of the consultation" by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in October, 2007
By: Robert Jason S., Sarah Taddeo
| Published: Nov 22, 2014
In 2007, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in London, UK, published Hybrids and Chimeras: A Report on the Findings of the Consultation…
LiteratureChimerismHuman reproductive technologyHuman CloningEmbryonic Stem Cells
"Transfer of Fetal Cells with Multilineage Potential to Maternal Tissue" (2004), by Kiarash Khosrotehrani et al.
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Nov 14, 2014
In 2004, a team of researchers at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, investigated the fetal cells that remained in the…
CellsStem CellsMaternal-Fetal ExchangeFetal cells from maternal bloodFetus
"Hybrids and Chimeras: A Consultation on the Ethical and Social Implications of Creating Human/Animal Embryos in Research" (2007), by the HFEA
By: Sarah Taddeo, Jason S. Robert
| Published: Nov 04, 2014
To educate its citizens about research into chimeras made from human and non-human animal cells, the United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation Embryology…
LiteratureChimerismHuman reproductive technologyHuman CloningFertilization in vitro, Human
Keith Henry Stockman Campbell (1954-2012)
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Jun 27, 2014
Keith Henry Stockman Campbell studied embryo growth and cell differentiation during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the UK. In 1995,…
Campbell, Keith, 1954-2012Wilmut, IanCloningStem CellsFibroblasts
"Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Executive Summary" (1999), by the US National Bioethics Advisory Commission
By: Ceara O'Brien
| Published: Apr 01, 2014
Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Executive Summary was published in September 1999 by The US National Bioethics Advisory Commission in…
LiteraturebioethicsStem cells--ResearchEmbryonic Stem CellsStem Cells
The Singapore Bioethics Advisory Committee
By: Ceara O'Brien
| Published: Mar 14, 2014
Established in tandem with Singapore's national Biomedical Sciences Initiatives, the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) was established by the…
OrganizationsSingaporeStem Cellsin vitroethics
The US President's Council on Bioethics (2001-2009)
By: Ceara O'Brien
| Published: Feb 18, 2014
The US President's Council on Bioethics was an organization headquartered in Washington D.C. that was chartered to advise then US President George W…
OrganizationbioethicsAdvisory boardsStem CellsEmbryonic Stem Cells
South Korea's Bioethics and Biosafety Act (2005)
By: Anne Safiya Clay
| Published: Mar 15, 2013
The South Korean government passed the Bioethics and Biosafety Act, known henceforth as the Bioethics Act, in 2003 and it took effect in 2005. South…
LawbioethicsInformed consent (Medical law)Embryonic Stem CellsEmbryonic stem cells--Research--Law and legislation
John Bertrand Gurdon (1933- )
By: Inbar Maayan, Sean Cohmer
| Published: Oct 11, 2012
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon further developed nuclear transplantation, the technique used to clone organisms and to create stem cells, while working in…
Cell nuclei--TransplantationCellsCloningStem CellsEmbryonic Stem Cells