{"id":145052,"date":"2022-08-28T18:23:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T23:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/frankenstein-scientists-create-embryo-with-brain-and-beating-heart-entirely-from-stem-cells"},"modified":"2022-08-28T18:23:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T23:23:21","slug":"frankenstein-scientists-create-embryo-with-brain-and-beating-heart-entirely-from-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/frankenstein-scientists-create-embryo-with-brain-and-beating-heart-entirely-from-stem-cells","title":{"rendered":"Frankenstein: Scientists create embryo with brain and beating heart entirely from stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/frankenstein-scientists-create-embryo-with-brain-and-beating-heart-entirely-from-stem-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a report this week from the science journal SciTechDaily, we learn of a scientific breakthrough that it clearly intended to be exciting and startling, but potentially worrisome as well. Scientists at the University of Cambridge have created a series of \u201cmodel embryos\u201d that include a functioning brain, a beating heart, and the foundation for all of the other bodily organs you would expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a report this week from the science journal SciTechDaily, we learn of a scientific breakthrough that it clearly intended to be exciting and startling, but potentially worrisome as well. Scientists at the University of Cambridge have created a series of \u201cmodel embryos\u201d that include a functioning brain, a beating heart, and the foundation for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145052","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\/145052","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}