Synthetic human embryos are created in the lab with NO egg or sperm

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What the hell could go wrong???



Human embryos made without eggs or sperm have been created in a scientific breakthrough which is bound to raise serious ethical and legal questions.

They were produced in a joint project between Cambridge University and the California Institute of Technology and resemble embryos in the earliest stages of human development.

They do not have the beginnings of a brain or a beating heart, but do include cells which would go on to form the placenta and yolk sac.....
 

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I can see people wanting to use "synthetic people" for organ replacement or even body replacements.

The list goes on, such as for servants, cheap labor and soldier armies.
 

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I can see people wanting to use "synthetic people" for organ replacement or even body replacements.

The list goes on, such as for servants, cheap labor and soldier armies.
Sounds like THE ISLAND.
 

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Insert Goldblum “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should” meme here
 
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