Recent Examples on the WebBy rapidly screening many of them, the researchers could isolate cells that stayed haploid after division — about 1 in 1,000. Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2016 In 2001, Dr. Gianpiero Palermo of the Weill Medical College at Cornell University in New York announced that his team created artificially haploid eggs by borrowing techniques from cloning. Brian Alexander, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2005 This year, a team led by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem finally produced haploid human embryonic stem cells by forcing unfertilized egg cells to divide. Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2016
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International Scientific Vocabulary, from Greek haploeidēs single, from haploos