{"id":80916,"date":"2018-07-24T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T01:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/artificial-embryos-are-a-step-closer-to-becoming-reality"},"modified":"2018-07-24T18:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T01:22:25","slug":"artificial-embryos-are-a-step-closer-to-becoming-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/artificial-embryos-are-a-step-closer-to-becoming-reality","title":{"rendered":"Artificial embryos are a step closer to becoming reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-embryos-are-a-step-closer-to-becoming-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 An international team of scientists has moved closer to creating artificial embryos after using mouse stem cells to make structures capable of taking a crucial step in the development of life.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said the results suggested human embryos could be created in a similar way in future \u2014 a step that would allow scientists to use artificial embryos rather than real ones to research the very earliest stages of human development.<\/p>\n<p>The team, led by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a professor at Britain\u2019s Cambridge University, had previously created a simpler structure resembling a mouse embryo in a lab dish. That work involved two types of stem cells and a three-dimensional scaffold on which they could grow.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/07\/24\/artificial-embryos-are-a-step-closer-to-becoming-reality\/?utm_campaign=partnerfeed&utm_medium=syndicated&utm_source=flipboard\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/07\/24\/artificial-embryos-are-a-step-...=flipboard<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 An international team of scientists has moved closer to creating artificial embryos after using mouse stem cells to make structures capable of taking a crucial step in the development of life. Experts said the results suggested human embryos could be created in a similar way in future \u2014 a step that would allow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80916","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}