Tag: Human skin

An international research team led by scientists from Melbourne is generating the first model of early human embryos from skin cells.

Law banning human cloning has temporarily halted the discovery by a Melbourne-led team that they could grow human embryos in a laboratory using skin cells. But a government research council believes the law isn't the only thing preventing these embryos from becoming clones.

An international research team led by scientists from Melbourne is generating the first model of early human embryos from skin cells.

Using neither egg nor sperm, the model embryos provide an opportunity to study the earliest days of human development.