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  • Israeli firm to create human embryos to harvest organs

    09/17/2022 8:50:17 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    Red State ^ | 09/17/2022 | Jazz Shaw
    Last month we looked at the work of a research group from the University of Cambridge who have been creating mouse embryos that are grown from stem cells rather than sperm and eggs. The embryos possess small brains, beating hearts, and other organs. While this is fascinating research that presents opportunities in the medical field, particularly for organ transplants, I raised a number of obvious ethical questions. Doing this with mice is one thing, but obviously, this research is heading toward trying something similar with human organs. Well, as the saying goes, that didn’t take long. Someone is already on...
  • This startup wants to copy you into an embryo for organ harvesting

    08/20/2022 3:11:02 PM PDT · by Enterprise · 52 replies
    https://www.technologyreview.com ^ | August 4, 2022 | Antonio Regalado
    In a search for novel forms of longevity medicine, a biotech company based in Israel says it intends to create embryo-stage versions of people in order to harvest tissues for use in transplant treatments.The company, Renewal Bio, is pursuing recent advances in stem-cell technology and artificial wombs demonstrated by Jacob Hanna, a biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Earlier this week, Hanna showed that starting with mouse stem cells, his lab could form highly realistic-looking mouse embryos and keep them growing in a mechanical womb for several days until they developed beating hearts, flowing blood, and cranial...