Assertion: embryo's cell | /r/HasProperty | human
Facets:
value: according to jun wu
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: human embryos which have animal cells added to them during early development Animal chimera embryos: animal embryos which have human cells added to them during early development
text: animal embryos which have human cells added to them during early development
text: The experiment, which still requires approval from the Japanese science ministry, would create animal embryos that contain human cells and transplant them into surrogate animals.
text: Japan’s science ministry last week gave provisional approval to a proposal from researchers at the University of Tokyo to create animal embryos that contain human cells and transplant them into surrogate animals, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported.
text: But according to Jun Wu, a biologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, only about 1 in 100,000 cells in the fetuses were human.
text: The hybrid is what scientists call a human-animal chimera , a single organism that's made up of two different sets of cells -- in this case, a mouse embryo that has both mouse cells and human cells.
text: One researcher, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte of the Salk Institute, showed unpublished data on more than a dozen pig embryo containing human cells.
text: The goal is for the rodent embryo to use the human cells to build itself a pancreas, and for two years, the team plans on watching these rodents develop and grow, carefully monitoring their organs and brains in the process.