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Charlie Chen served authentic Chinese food at the cafe in DC's World Bank before offices shut down last year. He shifted to feeding his regular customers through delivery, and picked up some new ones.

In this week’s episode of The Conversation Weekly, as new scientific guidelines are released on embryo research and the use of stem cells, we talk to experts about what’s changed – including a recommendation to relax the 14-day time limit for human embryo research. And we hear about a wave of romantic comedy films emerging from South Africa that are re-imagining the city of Johannesburg. It’s been five years since the last set of guidelines from the International Society for Stem Cell ...

In California, extreme heat and ozone pollution hit poor communities hardest A new study identifies places in the state where the climate-intensified health risks are linked. ByAlejandra Borunda Email When Juan Flores steps out of his Delano, California home into the midst of a heat wave, “it’s like walking into a wall,” he says. Flores lives in the San Joaquin Valley, one of the places where summer heat regularly creeps well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. But it isn’t just the heat that...

When King Minos of Crete was given a magnificent bull by the sea god Poseidon for a sacrifice, he could not bring himself to kill it. In anger, Poseidon enchanted Minos’s wife Pasiphaë to be filled with lust for the creature. The result of their trans-species mating was the bull-headed monster the Minotaur. Hybrids of humans and animals throng within myth and legend: centaurs, mermaids, goat-footed Pan. We’re both fascinated and uneasy about the...

Researchers from University of Michigan have discovered an essential oil in cinnamon that attacks fat cells and could be used as a treatment to fight obesity.

USA TODAY Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, scientists have created part-human, part-monkey embryos in a bid to find new ways to make human tissues and organs for replacement therapies. In a report released Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists announced they successfully injected human stem cells into monkey embryos. It might "constitute a promising strategy for various regenerative medicine applications, including the generation of organs and tissues for transplantation." Jun Wu, ass...

Proponents say chimera experiments could lead to a new source of transplant organs. An image from a timelapse of the monkey-human chimera Cell Monkey embryos containing human cells have been developed in a laboratory, a study by a global team of researchers confirms. The development sparks new debate on the ethics of experiments on "chimera" embryos, whose cells come from two different species. In the new study, the researchers, led by Prof Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte from the Salk Institute ...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(April 15, 2021) The ability to grow the cells of one species within an organism of a different species offers scientists a powerful tool for research and medicine. Its an approach that could advance our understanding of early human development, disease onset and progression and aging; provide innovative platforms for drug evaluation; and address the critical need for transplantable organs. Yet developing such capabilities has been a formidable challenge. Resear...

Scientists used stem cells to create a hybrid human-monkey embryo Chinese researchers have successfully created chimeric embryos by combining human stem cells and monkey blastocysts, a groundbreaking advance with both practical and ethical implications for the future of medicine. Youve reached the limit of three articles per month for unregistered users. You may continue reading for free by logging in below. Sign up for Academic Times free daily briefing. Continue with Google First Name Continu...

International team creates first chimeric human-monkey embryos Image of one of the chimeric human-monkey embryos. Salk Institute for Biological Studies A team of scientists from the U.S., China, and Spain reported Thursday they have created the first embryos that were part human and part monkey and kept them alive for up to 20 days in laboratory dishes. The ethically controversial creation of chimeras — containing cells from multiple species — is part of a drive to make exp...