Scientists have created a human embryo without sperm or an egg for the first time – which has been done.
An international team led by researchers from Monash University in Melbourne Australia successfully developed an early human embryo from the skin cells of an adult’s hand.
“This will allow us to study the early days of human development without the use of a human fetus, and it will allow us to study many cases of infertility and, for example, why multiple miscarriages within the first two weeks of pregnancy Are, “lead the researcher Jose Polo told ABC of Australia.
When placed in a dish, the model embryo, called ibloids, attached – as much as the embryo would be in the uterus – and began to develop, The Sydney Morning Herald reported
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IVF experts are likely to be among the most eager to learn more about the discovery.
The head of the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, John Carroll, told ABC that it came after years of experimentation.
“They had this kind of Eureka moment where they were looking down under the microscope and found out that they would constitute these tiny embryo-like structures,” Professor Carroll said.
But this discovery has also raised major ethical questions on cloning and human genetic engineering.
Polo said, “How religious leaders will take it, I don’t know, to be honest.”
Embryos are destroyed in 11 days and do not develop into embryos.
“We have to discuss. How much can we use these models to model biology? “
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