{"id":166107,"date":"2023-06-20T23:26:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T04:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/lab-grown-human-embryo-models-spark-calls-for-regulation"},"modified":"2023-06-20T23:26:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T04:26:24","slug":"lab-grown-human-embryo-models-spark-calls-for-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/lab-grown-human-embryo-models-spark-calls-for-regulation","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown human embryo models spark calls for regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-grown-human-embryo-models-spark-calls-for-regulation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have used stem cells to create structures that resemble human embryos in the lab, in a first that has prompted calls for stricter regulation in the rapidly advancing field.<\/p>\n<p>Several different labs around the world have released pre-print studies in the past seven days describing their research, which experts said should be treated with caution as the research has not yet been peer-reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>The labs used different techniques to encourage <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/human+embryonic+stem+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human embryonic stem cells<\/a>, which can become any type of cell, to self-assemble into a structure that resembles an embryo\u2014without needing sperm, an egg or fertilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have used stem cells to create structures that resemble human embryos in the lab, in a first that has prompted calls for stricter regulation in the rapidly advancing field. Several different labs around the world have released pre-print studies in the past seven days describing their research, which experts said should be treated with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166107","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}