The models could improve understanding of the earliest moments of life and help fertility research.
  • SmokeInFog@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Does this really solve the ethical wicket of human embryo testing? Is tricking stem cells into forming an embryo really that different from fertilizing an egg with a sperm cell to form an embryo? Like, would this still develop into a functional human being if implanted into a womb?

    • culpritus [any]
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      1 year ago

      The researchers stress it would be unethical, illegal and actually impossible to achieve a pregnancy using these embryo models - assembling the 120 cells together goes beyond the point an embryo could successfully implant into the lining of the womb.