{"id":120702,"date":"2021-03-19T20:24:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T03:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/scientists-create-model-embryos-raising-ethical-questions"},"modified":"2021-03-19T20:24:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T03:24:26","slug":"scientists-create-model-embryos-raising-ethical-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/scientists-create-model-embryos-raising-ethical-questions","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create model embryos, raising ethical questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-model-embryos-raising-ethical-questions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian researchers have created \u201cmodel\u201d human embryos from the skin cells of an adult\u2019s arm, in a world-first scientific breakthrough that raises significant ethical questions.<\/p>\n<p>The model embryos, created in a laboratory by researchers at Melbourne\u2019s Monash University, do not use egg or sperm, but ordinary cells that are reprogrammed to replicate the first few days of human life.<\/p>\n<p>When placed in a dish, the model embryos attach \u2013 much as embryos would in the uterus \u2013 and begin developing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian researchers have created \u201cmodel\u201d human embryos from the skin cells of an adult\u2019s arm, in a world-first scientific breakthrough that raises significant ethical questions. The model embryos, created in a laboratory by researchers at Melbourne\u2019s Monash University, do not use egg or sperm, but ordinary cells that are reprogrammed to replicate the first few [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}