Haploid embryonic stem cell research explores the utilisation of cells that contain a single set of chromosomes to probe gene function with unprecedented clarity. This unique genomic configuration ...

Evolution, Vol. 71, No. 2 (FEBRUARY 2017), pp. 215-226 (12 pages) Many organisms spend a significant portion of their life cycle as haploids and as diploids (a haploid–diploid life cycle). However, ...

Stem cell research holds huge potential for medicine and human health. In particular, human embryonic stem cells (ESCs), with their ability to turn into any cell in the human body, are essential to ...

The emergence, in recent years, of the first mammalian haploid cell lines has raised great expectations in the scientific community. Despite their potential, these cultures present some issues that ...

Since the emergence of molecular genetics more than fifty years ago, scientists have tried to isolate haploid mammalian cells, that is, cells with half the number of chromosomes contained in somatic ...

Using a 14C/3H double-labelling technique, the influence of kinetin on the length of the cell cycle of meristematic cells in haploid and diploid callus cultures of Datura innoxia was determined. The ...

Scientists have created stem cells that have just half of a genome but can still divide and differentiate — a pretty impressive feat. There are only two types of so-called haploid human cells, or ...

Scientists have succeeded in generating a new type of embryonic stem cell that carries a single copy of the human genome, instead of the two copies typically found in normal stem cells. These are the ...

Sometimes less is more. Scientists have created a new kind of human stem cell that has just half a genome. The cells can be turned into any tissue in the human body, despite only containing one set of ...

John Bowman receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Sex without seed. Seed without sex. It’s been said that the greatest gift of science to humankind would be achieving those two goals.