{"id":144826,"date":"2022-08-25T23:24:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T04:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-grew-a-synthetic-mouse-embryo-with-a-brain-and-a-beating-heart"},"modified":"2022-08-25T23:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T04:24:23","slug":"scientists-grew-a-synthetic-mouse-embryo-with-a-brain-and-a-beating-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-grew-a-synthetic-mouse-embryo-with-a-brain-and-a-beating-heart","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Grew a Synthetic Mouse Embryo With a Brain And a Beating Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-grew-a-synthetic-mouse-embryo-with-a-brain-and-a-beating-heart3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eavesdropping on the earliest conversations between tissues in an emerging life could tell us a lot about organ growth, fertility, and disease in general. It could help prevent early miscarriages, or even tell us how to grow whole replacement organs from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>In a monumental leap in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stem-cells\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">stem cell<\/a> research, an experiment led by researchers from the University of Cambridge in the UK has developed a living model of a mouse embryo complete with fluttering heart tissues and the beginnings of a brain.<\/p>\n<p>The research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/researchers-create-the-world-s-first-synthetic-embyro-using-mice-stem-cells\">advances the recent success<\/a> of a team comprised of some of the same scientists who pushed the limits on mimicking the embryonic development of mice using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stem-cells\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">stem cells<\/a> that had never seen the inside of a mouse womb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eavesdropping on the earliest conversations between tissues in an emerging life could tell us a lot about organ growth, fertility, and disease in general. It could help prevent early miscarriages, or even tell us how to grow whole replacement organs from scratch. In a monumental leap in stem cell research, an experiment led by researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144826","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}