Scientists are now making fake “human embryo-like structures” from stem cells. Intercessor, what do you think of this?

From CBN. The world’s first synthetic human embryo-like structures have been created by a team of scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom using stem cells, rather than from human eggs and sperm.

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The embryo-like structures are at the very earliest stages of human development and don’t have a heart or a brain, according to The Guardian. But the scientists say their study of the structures could mean new breakthroughs in trying to understand genetic disorders and the causes of miscarriages.

However, the announcement of the team’s research has raised many legal and ethical questions. …

Some bioethics experts are speaking out about the immediate need for governments to regulate such scientific studies. …

Dr. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a professor of biology and biological engineering at CalTech and the University of Cambridge, made a presentation on the team’s research Wednesday to the International Society for Stem Cell Research’s annual meeting in Boston, the outlet reported.

“We can create human embryo-like models by the reprogramming of {embryonic stem} cells,” she told the meeting. …

“I just wish to stress that they are not human embryos,” Zernicka-Goetz told CNN. “They are embryo models, but they are very exciting because they are very looking similar to human embryos and very important path towards discovery of why so many pregnancies fail, as the majority of the pregnancies fail around the time of the development at which we build these embryo-like structures.”

The scientists hope the study of the model embryos will give them the ability to learn about human development 14 days following fertilization. …

Stem Cell Expert Says ‘Synthetic’ Term is Misleading 

Dr. David Prentice, Ph.D., a stem cell expert with the Charlotte Lozier Institute told CBN News that these strides in stem cell research are a “real call for concern.” …

Dr. Prentice told CBN News, “My contention would be the technique to create them may be synthetic, but if you have something growing {that has} a beating heart and a nervous system and limbs and digits and other organs that look exactly like the organism you would take out of the womb, its an embryo.”

He told CBN News that using the term synthetic to describe the embryos is misleading. …

“They’re coming up with new and different ways to make an embryo is the bottom line,” he noted. “And by calling it synthetic, you might say we are lulled into a false sense of security that ‘oh they not experimenting on embryos {and} we don’t have any problems with them doing this with mice.’ But as they’ve said in their papers they also want to do this with humans.”

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