Who Wants To Grow A Synthetic Human Embryo?

[DTCwordfan]

BBC News 6pm

no sperm, no eggs, no uterus - Why Why Why.

Add in AI and really a rather horrendous concept for the future of mankind.

Ought to be banned - your views?

[LadyCG]

I completely agree. I'd hate to be alive 100 years from now.

[barry1010]

I wonder if they'd have a heart? Maybe they'd be wired better than some humans.

[Ryzen]

AB would be short of a few posters in the news section without it :-)

[wolf63]

You want to ban it without knowing anything about it?

[Lie-in King]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66715669

Appears to be very limited at the moment & is being done to allow further insights into embryonic development.

I'm not sure how I feel about it really, but I'll wait a few years & look again then.

[naomi24]

No. Creepy stuff.

[Barsel]

Perhaps one day there will be a birth of baby Frankenstein.

[smurfchops]

Scary

[Peter Pedant]

the Beeb hacks ( mediaeval historians and media grads) were full of it.

think DNA ( as TTT quips so often: is that how you spell it?). How does a liver cell know it is liver? The obvious answer up to 1959, was "The liver cell only contains liver DNA"
BUT 1959 Gurdon irradiated a frog spawn ( = one cell) and then put a frog liver nucleus into it
and got ......a frog ! - ( not frog liver)

OR: But Gurdon showed that this was not the case. By transferring the nuclei of adult frog cells into enucleated eggs, he obtained cloned adult frogs.

and we were told at uni 1970 that this showed the DNA of every cell contained the information for the whole.

'They' didnt stress that if you just cultured a frog liver cell, you got layers and layer of cells called fibroblasts

so you needed the egg-cytoplasm. This was a point rather underplayed 50 y ago.

and so now they have managed to do the first few cells without egg-cytoplasm

just a brick in the wall - and far too early to say how impt it is.

Dolly the sheep (mammal) had a short life and irretrievable kidney abnormalities.... which were unexpected....

[Blubster]

Hmm... human body on a steel skeleton operated by AI. Now, where have I seen that before?

[Barsel]

Who remembers Loise Brown? What did we think about that when it happened?
Copy and Paste
Louise Joy Brown is an English woman who was the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation experiment. Her birth, following a procedure pioneered in Britain, has been lauded among "the most remarkable medical breakthroughs of the 20th Century"

[Togo]

//Who Wants To Grow A Synthetic Human Embryo?//

Good grief ... imagine a World inhabited by Kier Starmer clones. Shudder, shiver.

[wiltsman]

Imagine a world inhabited by Jacob Rees-Mogg clones! Oh no!

Shiver shiver ... shudder shudder!

[Togo]

Imitation is of course the sincerest form of flattery.

[Togo]

Not only that ... I think that the "Mogster" may have established, beyond doubt, that he reproduces without the need for artificial aid or manipulation. I trust that he is claiming his well deserved tax free family allowances, as a middle class patriot should.

[Old_Geezer]

Because it's there.

It's about accumulating knowledge.

[Old_Geezer]

No frog liver ???
Wot, and no onions either ?

[hossain]

Zernicka-Goetz and her team, along with a rival team in Israel, had previously described creating model embryo-like structures from mouse stem cells. Those “embryoids” showed the beginnings of a brain, heart and intestinal tract after about eight days of development.

[Iamtheoneandonly]

The human race evolves, I'd have no problem with it as long as they turned out better than naturally conceived humans.

[bhg481]

Iam //I'd have no problem with it as long as they turned out better than naturally conceived humans// Is that your definition of better or mine?