Fri Sep 9, 2022 – 5:18 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – A development in stem cell research is being hailed as a breakthrough for those suffering infertility, miscarriage, or requiring organ transplants but also portends a chilling future straight out of dystopian science fiction.
CNN reported that a team of researchers has just published a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Nature announcing that, after 10 years of work, they have successfully used stem cells to create a mouse embryo possessing functioning organs without the use of sperm or egg cells.
“Our mouse embryo model not only develops a brain, but also a beating heart, all the components that go on to make up the body,” says lead study author Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, professor of mammalian development and stem cell biology at the University of Cambridge. “It’s just unbelievable that we’ve got this far. This has been the dream of our community for years, and a major focus of our work for a decade, and finally we’ve done it.”
Further, they hope to progress from mouse embryos to synthetic human embryos (which CNN euphemistically describes as “creating models of natural human pregnancies”) in order to better observe the gestational process,
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