{"id":191268,"date":"2024-06-15T18:23:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T23:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/the-wild-race-to-improve-synthetic-embryos"},"modified":"2024-06-15T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T23:23:57","slug":"the-wild-race-to-improve-synthetic-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/the-wild-race-to-improve-synthetic-embryos","title":{"rendered":"The wild race to improve synthetic embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-wild-race-to-improve-synthetic-embryos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a defined framework, but instead what we see here is a fairly wild race between labs,\u201d one journal editor told me during the ISSCR meeting. \u201cThe overarching question is: How far do they go, and where do we place them in a legal-moral spectrum? How can we endorse working with these models when they are much further along than we were two years ago?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So where will the race lead? Most scientists say the point of mimicking the embryo is to study it during the period when it would be implanting in the wall of the uterus. In humans, this moment is rarely observed. But stem-cell embryos could let scientists dissect these moments in detail.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it\u2019s also possible that these lab embryos turn out to be the real thing\u2014so real that if they were ever transplanted into a person\u2019s womb, they could develop into a baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe need a defined framework, but instead what we see here is a fairly wild race between labs,\u201d one journal editor told me during the ISSCR meeting. \u201cThe overarching question is: How far do they go, and where do we place them in a legal-moral spectrum? How can we endorse working with these models when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191268","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=191268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}