{"id":170193,"date":"2023-08-22T07:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/new-definition-of-a-human-embryo-proposed-amid-rapid-scientific-advances"},"modified":"2023-08-22T07:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:23:46","slug":"new-definition-of-a-human-embryo-proposed-amid-rapid-scientific-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/new-definition-of-a-human-embryo-proposed-amid-rapid-scientific-advances","title":{"rendered":"New definition of a human embryo proposed amid rapid scientific advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-definition-of-a-human-embryo-proposed-amid-rapid-scientific-advances2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe definition of the human embryo is far from being engrained, it\u2019s constantly evolving with scientific advances,\u201d said Nicolas Rivron, a developmental biologist at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(23)00807-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a perspective<\/a> published Thursday in Cell, he and an international group of leading luminaries in the fast-moving field of synthetic embryology \u2014 or \u201cstembryology,\u201d as it\u2019s sometimes called \u2014 argue that these latest scientific advances justify a new definition for the human embryo that\u2019s rooted not in how it was made, but in what it can become.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of this new path, we think it becomes more and more important to think about the embryo not in terms of how it was formed but about the potential it has to generate something,\u201d Rivron told STAT.<\/p>\n<p>He and his co-authors proposed that embryos be defined as \u201ca group of human cells supported by elements fulfilling extra-embryonic and uterine functions that, combined, have the potential to form a fetus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe definition of the human embryo is far from being engrained, it\u2019s constantly evolving with scientific advances,\u201d said Nicolas Rivron, a developmental biologist at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. In a perspective published Thursday in Cell, he and an international group of leading luminaries in the fast-moving [\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-170193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170193","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=170193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}