Over many decades assisted reproductive technologies, including artificial insemination,
embryo transfer, in vitro production (IVP) of embryos, cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer …

Reproductive technologies have made impressive advances since the 1950s owing to the
development of new and innovative technologies. Most of these advances were driven …

Embryonic stem (ES) cell lines provide an invaluable research tool for genetic engineering,
developmental biology and disease models. These cells can be maintained indefinitely in …

Porcine somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) has been used extensively to create
genetically modified pigs, but the efficiency of the methodology is still low. It has been …

Contents Since their original isolation, the majority of the work on embryonic stem cells
(ESC) has been carried out in mice. While the mouse is an outstanding model for basic …

Stem cells are undifferentiated and self-renewable cells that present new possibilities for
both regenerative medicine and the understanding of early mammalian development. Adult …

Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are derived from the inner cell mass of preimplantation
blastocysts. For decades, attempts to efficiently derive ESCs in animal livestock species …

Current knowledge on the biology of mammalian embryonic stem cells (ESC) is stunningly
sparse in light of their potential value in studies of development, functional genomics …

Contents More than eighteen years have passed since the first derivation of human
embryonic stem cells (ESC s), but their clinical use is still met with several challenges, such …

Pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells are undifferentiated cell lines derived from early
embryos and are capable of unlimited undifferentiated proliferation in vitro. They retain the …