{"id":165973,"date":"2023-06-18T05:23:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T10:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/synthetic-human-embryos-have-been-made-in-a-lab-for-first-time-scientists-say"},"modified":"2023-06-18T05:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T10:23:05","slug":"synthetic-human-embryos-have-been-made-in-a-lab-for-first-time-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/synthetic-human-embryos-have-been-made-in-a-lab-for-first-time-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic Human Embryos Have Been Made In A Lab For First Time, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Synthetic human embryos \u2013 derived from stem cells<\/a> without the need for eggs or sperm \u2013 have been created for the first time, scientists say. The structures represent the very earliest stages of human development, which could allow for vital studies into disorders like recurrent miscarriage and genetic diseases. But questions have been posed about the legal and ethical implications, as the pace of scientific discovery outstrips the legislation.<\/p>\n

The breakthrough was reported by the Guardian<\/a> newspaper following an announcement by Professor Magdalena \u017bernicka-Goetz, a developmental biologist at the University of Cambridge and Caltech, at the 2023 annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research<\/a>. The findings have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed paper.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understood that the synthetic structures model the very beginnings of human development. They do not yet contain a brain or heart, for example, but comprise the cells that would be needed to form a placenta, yolk sac, and embryo. \u017bernicka-Goetz told the conference that the structures have been grown to just beyond the equivalent of 14 days of natural gestation for a human embryo in the womb. It\u2019s not clear whether it would be possible to allow them to mature any further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Synthetic human embryos \u2013 derived from stem cells without the need for eggs or sperm \u2013 have been created for the first time, scientists say. The structures represent the very earliest stages of human development, which could allow for vital studies into disorders like recurrent miscarriage and genetic diseases. But questions have been posed about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"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-165973","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\/165973","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}