{"id":1330,"date":"2026-06-25T10:16:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:49:42","slug":"playing-god-first-synthetic-embryos-using-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/playing-god-first-synthetic-embryos-using-stem-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing GOD : First &#8220;Synthetic Embryos&#8221; using stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Date : Aug., 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source : Science Alert<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Stem-cells.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1331\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists grew \u201csynthetic embryos\u201d from mice cells as a starting point to grow organs from scratch.  These \u201cembryos\u201d were similar to normal mouse embryos, and able to grow the beginning of a spine and brain, a digestive track, and a beating heart. Most of them died early in the process. It could be promising for organs transplant without the need for a donor. At the same time, it brings ethical questions because it opens the door towards human embryos generation outside of the natural process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/researchers-create-the-world-s-first-synthetic-embyro-using-mice-stem-cells\">Science Alert article<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/action\/showPdf?pii=S0092-8674%2822%2900981-3\">Scientific Paper on Cell<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biology Date : Aug., 2022 Source : Science Alert Scientists grew \u201csynthetic embryos\u201d from mice cells as a starting point to grow organs from scratch. These \u201cembryos\u201d were similar to normal mouse embryos, and able to grow the beginning of a spine and brain, a digestive track, and a beating heart. Most of them died &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/playing-god-first-synthetic-embryos-using-stem-cells\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Playing GOD : First &#8220;Synthetic Embryos&#8221; using stem cells&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[215,216],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","tag-stem-cells","tag-synthetic-embryos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}