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Scientists Take Step Toward Creating Artificial Embryos (reuters.com)
An international team of scientists has moved closer to creating artificial embryos after using mouse stem cells to make structures capable of taking a crucial step in the development of life. From a report: Experts said the results suggested human embryos could be created in a similar way in future -- a step that would allow scientists to use artificial embryos rather than real ones to research the very earliest stages of human development. The team, led by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a professor at Britain's Cambridge University, had previously created a simpler structure resembling a mouse embryo in a lab dish. That work involved two types of stem cells and a three-dimensional scaffold on which they could grow. But in new work published on Monday in the journal Nature Cell Biology, the scientists developed the structures further -- using three types of stem cells -- enabling a process called gastrulation, an essential step in which embryonic cells begin self-organizing into a correct structure for an embryo to form.
Artificial Cucks!
At some point, our playing God is going to catch up to us.
Just because we *can* do something doesn't mean we *should*.
We as a species will be punished for our hubris and it is not going to be pretty. We murder millions upon innocent millions of unborn babies right now, and that's not enough for us so now we are going to manufacture babies like some kind of widget just so a few sociopathic scientists can murder them for 'progress.' Doesn't sound like progress to me, unless you mean progressively more and more evil.
Since some coward has mod points and felt the need to post as AC and mod his own posts up just to say we "shouldn't be playing God," I felt it was only right to balance this by claiming we should be playing God.
Science is all about learning how the world works and testing it if you can. If you think science is playing God then you should go back to the jungle with the other monkeys.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
skydaddy would be angry at you
Its rather factual now that human's have become God like beings created life artificially and eventually this leads to people losing the wonder of life as we know it. But I think most scientist never believed creation was anything that couldn't eventually be duplicated by science. Its one of those question just because we can doesn't mean we should.
This doesn't solve any moral dilemmas. If you can induce human embryos to come about then those are still human.
The better we understand embryos, the easier it is to track them to their lair and kill them.
It will be interesting to see how this will affect choice rights. Is this considered conception, if so, at what point?
All we have to do now is combine this with artificial wombs and automate the whole thing in seed ships spreading humanity to neighboring stars...
The only question is who raises the newborns in the seed ship. How many adults do we need to have around? Perhaps a generational with only half a dozen people at any given time but that can spawn thousands once it arrives at the chosen destination.
I can't be the first to think of this concept. Can anyone recommend a sci-fi novel that describes a similar idea?
See, those embryos are needed for research - to ease human suffering and help our economy - medical treatment for many genetic diseases are extremely expensive and limit peoples' ability to work. Many diseases that may one day may be cured from these artificial embryos will be eliminated. And as someone who lost the genetic lottery and is struggling physically, emotionally and financially because of our obscenely expensive medical system, I am hoping for success - even if it doesn't do me any good. I'm thinking of the future.
And let's remember this is necessary because some very misguided people think fertilized eggs, blastocysts and embryos are "human lives" and are morally against use of embryos in any scientific research - but have no problem with living people suffering because of the politicization of science. (And condemn those that have to be on disability as some sort of lazy freeloader.) And it's funny that many of the unused frozen embryos used in fertility clinics are trashed after a while. And of course many don't even become fetuses after implantation - but we'll ignore all those inconvenient facts.
Females can be quite unpredictable, what if they were to all go on a sex strike or something. Lol Or just unable to have children... who knows.
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Because I haven't seen one joke yet about Replicants.
History fail. The Roman Empire was long, long dead.
Google the phrase "Holy Roman Empire". Yes, Voltaire did say it "was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." Neverhtheless, it called itself the Roman empire.
--and, actually, the Eastern Roman empire was still around at the start of the crusades. So, I'll give your statement a "half" rating on the truthiness scale.
by the time of the Crusades which were a response to Muslim invasions and occupations in Europe which happened precisely because there was no longer a Roman Empire to keep the Muslims in check.
No; indeed there were Muslim invasions and occupations in Europe (mostly eastern Europe, and mostly the Turks)... but these were after the crusades, not before.
Go read some history books and stop getting your "facts" from other incel losers like yourself.
I would say the same to you.
How ironic, in so many ways, that someone named after Mary Magdelene would lead a team creating the initial phase of artificial humans. Philosophy students and scholars are going to be busy with that.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Hey dumbass, what do you think all of this research you keep trying to ban is for?
First off, cascading style sheets never made any fucking sense to me but the industry loves them and you named yourself after them. IOW, what makes sense to YOU doesn't matter one damned bit.
Also, as usual, you're a goddamned hypocrite. You use these kinds of technicalities* daily to shut down abortion facilities which are perfectly legal and what this shows is that you conservatives, again AS USUAL, can't take a dose of your own damned medicine.
You're a bunch of butthurt sore losers. You've been outplayed. CRY MOAR.
* waiting periods, limited number of facilites, admitting privelidges, onerous fees on the operators, 8ft fucking hallways, all kinds of "technically correct" bullshit.
You, your uneducated self, perhaps cannot mod your own stuff. However, there are 3 working methods of doing so. One of those even lets you do it with logged-in accounts! However, I'm not gonna tell you how to do it. Maybe someone else will, but as you have already declared yourself an xstian, I know you'll only use the information I share for evil. That's what you guys always do.
OK, point; I was thinking of the Turkish expansion into Europe. The caliphate's conquest of Spain ("Al-Andalus") was indeed much earlier. But the crusades were not a "response" to Islamic Spain, as the original anonymous coward stated; they were in a different direction and with a different objective.
"...Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."
Um, that would be you. You believe that an embryo is in some magical "non human" category because of how it was created.