{"id":144812,"date":"2022-08-25T21:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T02:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-use-stem-cells-to-create-synthetic-mouse-embryos"},"modified":"2022-08-25T21:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T02:22:43","slug":"scientists-use-stem-cells-to-create-synthetic-mouse-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-use-stem-cells-to-create-synthetic-mouse-embryos","title":{"rendered":"Scientists use stem cells to create synthetic mouse embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-stem-cells-to-create-synthetic-mouse-embryos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have created \u201csynthetic\u201d mouse embryos from stem cells without a dad\u2019s sperm or a mom\u2019s egg or womb.<\/p>\n<p>The lab-created embryos mirror a natural mouse embryo up to 8 \u00bd days after fertilization, containing the same structures, including one like a beating heart.<\/p>\n<p>In the near term, researchers hope to use these so-called embryoids to better understand early stages of development and study mechanisms behind disease without the need for as many lab animals. The feat could also lay the foundation for creating synthetic human embryos for research in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have created \u201csynthetic\u201d mouse embryos from stem cells without a dad\u2019s sperm or a mom\u2019s egg or womb. The lab-created embryos mirror a natural mouse embryo up to 8 \u00bd days after fertilization, containing the same structures, including one like a beating heart. In the near term, researchers hope to use these so-called embryoids [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144812","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}