The World’s First-Ever “Synthetic Embryo” Is Already Causing Controversy
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Image credit: Getty Images. Article by Noor Al-Sibai. Futurism – August 5, 2022.
Scientists have created the world’s first lab-grown “synthetic embryo,” a groundbreaking moment in science that has reignited a fierce ethical debate. Led by molecular geneticist Joseph Hanna, a team of researchers at Israel’s Wizemann Institute of Science managed to create a synthetic mouse “embryo” in a lab without fertilized eggs or a uterus, potentially allowing us to get a glimpse of what happens in the early stages of human pregnancy as well. […]
