TY - JOUR
T1 - Cybrid human embryos-warranting opportunities to augment embryonic stem cell research
AU - Fulka, Jnr, Josef
AU - Fulka, Helena
AU - St John, Justin
AU - Galli, Cesere
AU - Lazzari, Giovanna
AU - Lagutina, Irina
AU - Fulka, Josef
AU - Loi, Pasqualino
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The recent vote in the British Parliament allows scientists in principle to create hybrid embryos by transferring human somatic cell nuclei into animal oocytes. This vote opens a fascinating new area of research with the central aim of generating interspecific lines of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) that could potentially be used to understand development, differentiation, gene expression and genomic compatibility. It will also promote human cell therapies, as well as the pharmaceutical industry s search for new drug targets. If this approach is to be successful, many biological questions need to be answered and, in addition, some moral and ethical aspects must be taken into account.
AB - The recent vote in the British Parliament allows scientists in principle to create hybrid embryos by transferring human somatic cell nuclei into animal oocytes. This vote opens a fascinating new area of research with the central aim of generating interspecific lines of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) that could potentially be used to understand development, differentiation, gene expression and genomic compatibility. It will also promote human cell therapies, as well as the pharmaceutical industry s search for new drug targets. If this approach is to be successful, many biological questions need to be answered and, in addition, some moral and ethical aspects must be taken into account.
UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=18675481
U2 - 10.1016/j.tibtech.2008.06.001
DO - 10.1016/j.tibtech.2008.06.001
M3 - Letter
VL - 26
SP - 469
EP - 474
JO - International Journal of Developmental Biology
JF - International Journal of Developmental Biology
SN - 0214-6282
IS - 9
ER -