Is This The World’s First Synthetic Human Embryo?

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Humans have long been able to create a human embryo via in vitro fertilization, or combining egg and sperm in a test tube and then inserting those back into the mother for maturation. BuHowever, in a scientific first, researchers have created a synthetic human embryo without either of those two components.

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00:00humans have long been able to create a human embryo via in vitro fertilization or combining

00:09egg and sperm in a test tube and then inserting those back into the mother for maturation but now

00:14in a scientific first researchers have created a synthetic human embryo without either of those

00:19two components this is professor jacob hannah of the wiseman institute of science in israel

00:24according to him the process of human embryo development is still very much a mystery as

00:29there are ethical limitations with regards to accessing and observing that material that's why

00:33he says he and his team endeavored to create a synthetic human embryo analog so they could better

00:37observe the cellular maturation process the research team used human stem cells that were donated years

00:42ago here's professor hannah to explain the process and what we do this time is we put them in a special

00:48media that takes them to really really early stages as we can see that they start cells start

00:54differentiating correctly migrating and sorting themselves into the correct structure and the

01:00farthest we could get is as day 14 in human embryo development many are now decrying ethical concerns

01:06with this type of research hannah maintains they're not trying to make a human baby simply attempting to

01:11better understand the process and perhaps help us better treat issues that arise during pregnancy

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