And so they have long sought haploid embryonic stem cells, which can become any kind of tissue but contain just one set of genes, like a sperm or egg. This year, a team led by the Hebrew University of ...

The only exceptions are reproductive (egg and sperm) cells, known as ‘haploid’ cells because they contain a single set of 23 chromosomes. These haploid cells cannot divide to make more eggs and sperm.

In mammals, gametes (eggs and sperm) are normally the only cells with a haploid genome. But using a combination of electricity and chemical treatment, the researchers were able to force an ...

have identified chemical compounds that increase the stability of mammalian haploid cell lines. The study is published in the latest issue of Cell Reports. With the exception of sperm and egg ...

the resulting fertilized egg again has two copies of each chromosome.) When treated in this manner, about 2 percent of the differentiated human embryonic stem cells were haploid after 14 days of ...

There are only two types of so-called haploid human cells, or those that have just 23 chromosomes: sperm and egg cells. And they can’t divide. But haploid stem cells could make testing drugs a ...

To explore the feasibility of deriving haploid human ES cells, we generated and analysed a collection of 14 early-passage human pES cell lines for the persistence of haploid cells. We initially ...

have identified chemical compounds that increase the stability of mammalian haploid cell lines. The study is published in the latest issue of Cell Reports. With the exception of sperm and egg ...

Science is tiptoeing towards a new procedure that could revolutionize fertility treatment, as researchers demonstrate the possibility of transferring DNA from skin cells into a donor egg.

Until now, scientists have only succeeded in creating haploid embryonic stem cells—which contain a single set of chromosomes—in non-human mammals such as mice, rats and monkeys.

Recently, a research team set out to derive human haploid neural stem cells (haNSCs) to carry out lineage-specific screens. The research is published in the World Journal of Stem Cells. Human ...