Embryonic

Researchers have figured out a potential way to prevent mitochondrial DNA related diseases by trading out healthy mitochondria for the mutated mitochondria. Apparently there are no side effects. Read more

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... to see some major morphological changes in humans (or in more complex animals, such as mammals). Simply all the genetic control elements during embryonic and foetal stages probably make getting the process right very difficult - though this is not to say impossible. Looking forward to see some ...

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... create modified cells or whatever... 4. The modified cells are grown in a culture? 5. Cells are taken from the grown cell culture and put into an embryonic pig cell inside a womb? 6. The pig develops with the modified genes. 7. Once the pig has fully grown, organs can be harvested. That's all ...

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... to use stem cells from the embryo for research purposes and not for cloning, and they have some plans to emphasize the human mitochondria in the embryonic cells, though I do not quite understand how they do it. Here is the link to that article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3345954/Human-pig-hybrid-embryos-given-go-ahead.html ...

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well it's like iPS cells: they very very closely resemble embryonic stem cells, but they're not exactly identical. Just like that, those cells don't have all the same characteristics of beta cells (if i remember correctly they don't cluster into islands).

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