{"id":165802,"date":"2023-06-15T00:42:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T05:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/scientists-report-creation-of-first-human-synthetic-model-embryos"},"modified":"2023-06-15T00:42:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T05:42:31","slug":"scientists-report-creation-of-first-human-synthetic-model-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/scientists-report-creation-of-first-human-synthetic-model-embryos","title":{"rendered":"Scientists report creation of first human synthetic model embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-report-creation-of-first-human-synthetic-model-embryos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers in the United States and United Kingdom say they have created the world\u2019s first synthetic human embryo-like structures from stem cells, bypassing the need for eggs and sperm.<\/p>\n<p>These embryo-like structures are at the very earliest stages of human development: They don\u2019t have a beating heart or a brain, for example. But scientists say they could one day help advance the understanding of genetic diseases or the causes of miscarriages.<\/p>\n<p>The research raises critical legal and ethical questions, and many countries, including the US, don\u2019t have laws governing the creation or treatment of synthetic embryos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers in the United States and United Kingdom say they have created the world\u2019s first synthetic human embryo-like structures from stem cells, bypassing the need for eggs and sperm. These embryo-like structures are at the very earliest stages of human development: They don\u2019t have a beating heart or a brain, for example. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1496,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-law","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165802","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}