Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata In an attempt to investigate how the monkey embryos and human embryos function alongside, scientists discovered the world’s first monkey embryos containing human cells. Fascinating, right? The embryos were derived from a macaque and then injected with human stem cells in the lab, these were then allowed to grow […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata Interspecies chimeras provide a unique platform for discovery and clinical use by probing early embryogenesis and regeneration. Interspecies chimeras are useful through interspecies blastocyst complementation to study human development and disease and also to produce functional human tissues. Cell competition involves a preserved fitness-sensing process during which adjoining less-fit but viable […]
Shinjini Bandopadhyay, Amity University Kolkata In Greek mythology, chimeras were hybrid creatures; part lion, part goat, part snake. Now chimeras can be simply defined as animals made up of cells of two separate zygotes. Chimeric animals have more than one set of parents. Chimeras can be built in two ways; the first is to introduce […]
