Mouse embryo with brain and beating heart created from stem cells

Post by TEP_Kim_Il_Sung » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 2:20 AM UTC

pyuser583 wrote: post #11

biolotthek wrote: post #5

> to understand why so many pregnancies fail and how we might be able to prevent that from happening Are we sure that's a good idea? I've read that one of the reason for early pregnancy failure is that the embryo is not fit enough and it would be a waste of time and resources to commit to it. Another very counterintuitive finding is that if you try to implant embryos in various tissues (brain, liver, ...), the one in…

That might be true, but I know for a fact it’s a truism that doctors tell women to not feel as bad about miscarriages. My wife has had multiple miscarriages, to the point where it’s expected. Until doctors are informed of her history, they always say “the embryo wasn’t healthy enough to survive on its own …” My wife has a number of hormonal issues, but doctors can’t find a single diagnosis. But it’s certainly not wea…

Post by xwdv » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 2:25 AM UTC

NotYourLawyer wrote: post #6

leetrout wrote: post #3

* mouse embryo

Important point. Pretty fucked up to do this to a human.

Post by saxonww » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 2:40 AM UTC

xwdv wrote: post #22

gardenfelder wrote: post #2

This really is pretty amazing work. But, to the uninitiated, there's a dark side; I overheard someone commenting about an earlier post about this experiment, thinking it's possible to get out a chemistry set and just make a living thing. To be clear, they started with stem cells, and teased them into doing the right thing - they did not create a new living artifact from scratch; > Instead, they used stem cells - the…

Wouldn’t the living artifact that results from this embryo just be horribly incompatible with life and die quickly or at best live for a brief time before expiring?

Post by aliqot » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 2:54 AM UTC

xwdv wrote: post #23

NotYourLawyer wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Important point. Pretty fucked up to do this to a human.

Not a human, just a thing made of human parts.

Post by winkeyless » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 3:16 AM UTC

Apocryphon wrote: post #28

No name for this research project was mentioned- may I suggest the Nexus-0?