Scientists can now create embryo-like structures from animal and human stem cells in the lab, and recently, researchers unveiled the most advanced human embryo models yet, which resemble natural ...

The biological and legal definitions of “embryo” don’t match, and that will become a problem, according to Nicolas Rivron, PhD, of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The National Institutes of Health is proposing a small change to the ...

Frederick Grinnell argues that formulating a definition of embryo death might allow us to escape the impasse in the ethical debate over embryo research (“Defining Embryo Death Would Permit Important ...

Advances in organoids and embryonic models of human development have the potential to prompt social and existential questions --e.g., what defines human individuality? However, bioethicists say that ...

Thanks to continuous advances in human stem cell research, studies that make use of embryo models are progressing quickly. This research offers both a scientific and ethical alternative to the use of ...

In the often acrimonious debate about research on human stem cells, the opposing sides have argued over what should be done with the hundreds of thousands of human embryos that have been created ...

It is time for a redefinition of the human embryo, a team of researchers has proposed. Advances in recent years have shown that human stem cells can be used to make embryo-like structures, called ...

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