Scientists Have Grown, “An Entity” that Resembles an Early Human Embryo Without Using Sperm, Eggs or a Womb
September 6th, 2023
Via: BBC:
Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb.
The Weizmann Institute team say their “embryo model”, made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo.
It even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab.
The ambition for embryo models is to provide an ethical way of understanding the earliest moments of our lives.
The first weeks after a sperm fertilises an egg is a period of dramatic change – from a collection of indistinct cells to something that eventually becomes recognisable on a baby scan.
This crucial time is a major source of miscarriage and birth defects but poorly understood.
“It’s a black box and that’s not a cliche – our knowledge is very limited,” Prof Jacob Hanna, from the Weizmann Institute of Science, tells me.
How it is”ethical” to create a human being in a manner reminiscent of cloning, then use that fetal child like a lab rat? Not that creating lab rats is ethical, either: they were the foundation of the slippery moral slope down which humanity has been dragged to our present grossly immoral medical/scientific/social level.
The bottom line is that the bad guys want to become physically perfect, want to have physically perfect children, and want to live forever. They will support any research that might contribute to those goals, no matter what harm it does to any other living thing.
They can’t do it without our ongoing financial support. Where does your money go?