[Magazine] Scientific American. 2002. Vol. 286. No 1

[Magazine] Scientific American. 2002. Vol. 286. No 1

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NEEDLE PIPETTE 2 While an egg is held still with a pipette, a needle is used to drill through the zona pellucida, removing a plug. 3 After ejecting the zona plug, the needle is inserted back in the egg through the hole to withdraw and discard the polar body and the egg’s genetic material. 4 NOT YET INNER CELL MASS BLASTOCYST 6 The injected egg is exposed to a mixture of chemicals and growth factors designed to activate it to divide. 46 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 7 After roughly 24 hours, the activated egg begins dividing.

41 1,500 500 Height (parsecs) 1,000 Ostriker of Princeton University argued that the hot phase should occupy 55 to 75 percent of interstellar space. Cooler neutral phases would be confined to isolated clouds within this ionized matrix— essentially the inverse of the traditional picture, in which the neutral gas dominates and the ionized gas is confined to small pockets. Recent observations seem to support this upending of conventional wisdom. The nearby spiral galaxy M101, for example, has a circular disk of atomic hydrogen gas riddled with holes—presumably blown by massive stars.

Lanza and Michael D. West, with Carol Ezzell FIRST CLONED HUMAN EMBRYO consists of at least six cells. The genetic material of the embryo— and the ovarian cells sticking to it— appears blue here. Copyright 2001 Scientific American, Inc. Embryo Cloned early-stage human embryos— and human embryos generated only from eggs, in a process called parthenogenesis— now put therapeutic cloning within reach THEY WERE SUCH TINY DOTS, YET THEY HELD SUCH immense promise. After months of trying, on October 13, 2001, we came into our laboratory at Advanced Cell Technology to see under the microscope what we’d been striving for—little balls of dividing cells not even visible to the naked eye.

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