Word: transferal
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...meantime, Eggan's group has provided an alternative method for generating customized stem cells that would take advantage of the early-stage embryos frozen in IVF centers around the country. The most reliable way of generating patient-specific stem cells remains nuclear transfer-taking the nucleus from a patient's skin cell and inserting it into an egg that has had its nucleus removed. This hybrid then begins to divide, and within a few days, generates stem cells that are genetically identical to the patient. The problem, however, as Eggan puts it, is that "there are never any extra unfertilized...
Eggan's group has found, astonishingly, that one-celled zygotes, or fertilized embryos that are on the verge of making their first cell division, can act just like the emptied-out egg in the nuclear transfer process. And because more of these zygotes are available than eggs, it may give patients another way of obtaining customized stem cells. In fact, notes Eggan, there may be even more such zygotes available if you count the abnormally fertilized embryos that IVF clinicians discard immediately. Anywhere from 3% to 10% of IVF embryos get either too many or too few chromosomes when they...
...gender-neutral housing—where students could be placed into mixed gender suites —was taken this year with the announcement that students may mark themselves as transgender on their housing forms, instead of as only male or female. This option will affect entering freshmen and transfer students, as well as all students in next spring’s housing lotteries...
...University has amassed a spotty record at commercializing its research, a practice known as “technology transfer.” But it hopes not to make the same mistake again...
With a new president and new deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the Medical School set to take office next month, Harvard is adopting a new approach to tech transfer...