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Joseph Shavit

Groundbreaking robotic microsurgeon reveals how embryos grow

Understanding the biology behind an embryo’s development is crucial not only from a basic science perspective, but also from a medical one.

Joseph Shavit

Israeli researchers solve the mystery of human skin and organ regeneration

Wound healing is a major problem for many older individuals and chronic, non-healing skin ulcers are a major source of health care costs.

Joseph Shavit

Novel blood stem cell research could change medicine of the future

Making stem cells from a patient’s adult cells – rather than human embryos – is one of the holy grails in modern medicine treatments.

Joseph Shavit

‘Synthetic’ embryo with brain and beating heart grown by Cambridge scientists

Researchers created embryos from stem cells that form a brain, a beating heart, and the foundations of all the other organs of the body.