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  • Genetically modified plants

    Genetically modified plants: questions and answers

  • Genetic technologies

    What can and should genetic technologies be used for?

    • Stem cell research and therapeutic cloning: an update

    Degenerative  diseases and serious injuries to organs and tissues may be treated through stem cell therapies. ... Research on human embryonic stem cells will be required to investigate all of the potential therapies because other cell types, such as

    Seven days in science - 15 October 2010

    Next week begins with two-day discussion meeting 2010: what next for stem cell biology? ... cells and regenerative medicine and the extraordinary opportunities to study the molecular mechanisms that cause inherited diseases are being provided by new

    Stem Cell Research Committee: Stem cell research

    The Royal Society issued two documents on the subject of stem cell research in 2000: Therapeutic Cloning and Stem Cell Research and Therapeutic Cloning: an update. ... This further update has been prepared in response to the inquiry by the House of Lords

    CMO Expert Group: Therapeutic Cloning

    This submission focuses on stem cells because of their application to a wide range of therapeutic interventions. ... Stem cells are defined here as cells that retain the capacity to renew themselves and produce more specialized progeny.

    HFEA: Human-animal embryos in research

    More research is essential to address scientific issues regarding chimaera and hybrid embryos and/or stem cells derived from them. ... Placing embryos created through CNR into a woman is prohibited under the Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001.

    Human reproductive cloning

    Public anxiety is being raised by recent hype and speculation surrounding claims about human reproductive cloning. ... This statement has been prepared by Lord May of Oxford, President of the Royal Society, Professor Richard Gardner, chair of the Royal

    Seven days in science - 15 October 2010

    The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. We aim to expand the frontiers of knowledge by championing the development and use of science, mathematics,

    Journal - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences

    Developmental biology and the redirection or replacement of cells

    Dec 29, 1999 - The aim of developmental biology is to understand how an egg converts itself into a complete organism through the processes of cell differentiation, morphogenesis and size regulation. The principles that have emerged over recent decades include the

    SirJohn Gurdon, FRS

    Journal - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences

    The mechanism of interferon production

    Sep 24, 1982 - Interferons are formed when most cells are treated with viruses or double-stranded RNA (to form IFN-α or β, or both) or when lymphoid cells are treated with mitogens or the appropriate antigen (to form IFN-γ). Interferon-α and β are formed as a