Scientists Create A Device That Can Mass-Produce Human Embryoids

npr.org ^ | September 11, 2019 | Rob Stein

[a fool in paradise]

NPR has no ethics

[CopperTop]

What could possibly go wrong? d;^)

[Pearls Before Swine]

Coaxed stem cells?

No sex involved, no original sin.

[ifinnegan]

So he’s saying it’s a non fertilization event, ergo not a human life.

The article isn’t clear but his comment about being limited to 14 days after a fertilization not applying to his method indicates this is not a fertilization.

[ransomnote]

Good point. I read part of the linked research:

"Invitro cultured human embryos provide insights about the self-

organizing properties and autonomy of early human development.

However, protocols for invitro human embryo culture beyond the

blastocyst stage remain suboptimal. Furthermore, bioethical guide-

lines prohibit invitro culture of human embryos beyond 14 days post-

fertilization or reaching the onset of primitive streak (PS) development.

Human and mouse pluripotent stem cells in a developmental state sim-

ilar to the epiblast have been used for modelling post-implantation

development of human and mouse embryos. Thus, models based

on stem cells are an important ethical alternative to the use of natural

conceptus, especially as they can model only part of the conceptus."

Controlled modelling of human epiblast and amnion development using stem cellsg

 

 

ASo then I had to look up pluripotent stem cells:

 

"Pluripotent stem cells are master cells. They’re able to make cells from all three basic body layers, so they can potentially produce any cell or tissue the body needs to repair itself. This “master” property is called pluripotency. Like all stem cells, pluripotent stem cells are also able to self-renew, meaning they can perpetually create more copies of themselves."

 

http://stemcell.childrenshospital.org/about-stem-cells/pluripotent-stem-cells-101/

 

[Getready]

Blade Runner showing up at your door soon.

[Getready]

They will be able to vote too....hmmmmm....

[ifinnegan]

Thanks.

Although it does indicate perhaps the source material is from abortions.

To my mind this is extra expensive and foolish (leaving aside the ethics of using abortion derived cells).

More could be learned using model systems of mouse and monkey.

[fruser1]

[IndispensableDestiny]

I adhere to the premise in Robert Heinlein's Friday that artificial persons have no rights.

[The Duke]

This doesn’t end well, does it?

[Dave Wright]

The scientists involved understand that this procedure can not successfully be used to produce embryos that would be allowed to fully develop into a human fetus. The fertilization process for all placental mammals including humans requires special epigenetic imprinting from the male germ cell (sperm) that is critical to the normal differentiation of embryo cells. The imprinting stimulates the production of specific enzymes and structures that don’t happen with an induced pluripotent stem cell (IPSC) by itself.

Without this material the fetus is potentially non-viable or, if born, would suffer serious medical conditions that would shorten its life significantly. This was discovered as a result of cloning other animals. The first generation if it survives at all is not healthy. If this animal is then bred naturally the normal fetus resets all the epigenetic controls and is fully functional. No scientist would ever be allowed to treat humans this way.

[ronnie raygun]

It doesn’t end well for us

[txnativegop]

I guess the Democrats are working to create a completely compliant slave race? D-mn that sounds horrid.

[Bommer]

Scientists have invented a device that can quickly produce large numbers of living entities that resemble very primitive human embryos.

Whoa whoa! Did they to paraphrase, say “living primative embryos?” So a fertilized egg is not life, but a unfertized entity that is not fertialized is living?

[ransomnote]

Whoa whoa! Did they to paraphrase, say “living primative embryos?” So a fertilized egg is not life, but a unfertized entity that is not fertialized is living?
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Whoa! NAILED IT!!! Good catch!

[TBP]

Scary, but it would solve the birth dearth.

[Texas Eagle]

An embryo is not an embryo for weeks. Maybe for a day or so. There are YouTube videos on this subject, you so-called scientists.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Scientists Create A Device That Can Mass-Produce Human Embryoids

Wilt Chamberlain had one decades ago...

[Ezekiel]

Whoa whoa! Did they to paraphrase, say “living primative embryos?” So a fertilized egg is not life, but a unfertized entity that is not fertialized is living?

Excellent observation. It's alive or not alive, depending upon observation. The quantum world is not so mysterious after all. :-/