Scientists create world ’s first ‘synthetic embryos’

Researchers use stem cells from mice to form embryo-like structures with intestinal tract, beginnings of a brain, and a beating heartResearchers have created the world ’s first “synthetic embryos” in a groundbreaking feat that bypassed the need for sperm, eggs and fertilisation.Scientists at the Weizmann Institute in Israel found that stem cells from mice could be made to self-assemble into early embryo-like structures with an intestinal tract, the beginnings of a brain, and a beating heart.Continue reading...
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