The "combat model" looks cool.
The "basic pleasure model" ain't bad, either.
Definitely an improvement over the earlier "standard labor model."
Just doing the jobs real humans won't do!
Regards,
Posted on 06/14/2023 7:57:05 PM PDT by bitt
A team of researchers in the United States and United Kingdom say they have created the world’s first synthetic human embryo-like structures from stem cells, bypassing the need for eggs and sperm.
These embryo-like structures are at the very earliest stages of human development: They don’t have a beating heart or a brain, for example. But scientists say they could one day help advance the understanding of genetic diseases or the causes of miscarriages.
The research raises critical legal and ethical questions, and many countries, including the US, don’t have laws governing the creation or treatment of synthetic embryos.
The pace of discoveries in this field and the growing sophistication of these models have alarmed bioethics experts as they push ever closer to the edge of life.
“Unlike human embryos arising from in vitro fertilization (IVF), where there is an established legal framework, there are currently no clear regulations governing stem cell derived models of human embryos. There is an urgent need for regulations to provide a framework for the creation and use of stem cell derived models of human embryos,” James Briscoe, associate research director at the Francis Crick Institute, said in a statement.
Dr. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz described the work in a presentation Wednesday to the International Society for Stem Cell Research’s annual meeting in Boston. Zernicka-Goetz, a professor of biology and biological engineering at CalTech and the University of Cambridge, said the research has been accepted at a well-regarded scientific journal but has not been published. The research was first reported by The Guardian.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
P
> They don’t have a beating heart or a brain,
Oh. They’re Democrats, then.
Honestly, what is up with Israel’s participation in this activity that would go against the Torah by creating biological life whose sole purpose is slavery?
That is what I was going to say.
“Unlike human embryos arising from in vitro fertilization (IVF), where there is an established legal framework, there are currently no clear regulations governing stem cell derived models of human embryos.That's because the Biteme admin has overturned Trump rules against such use. They have lots of words for it, embryo, stem cell, blastocyte, etc.
There will be a lot of money in designer genetic slaves in the future
No...
Just...no.
Just because you can does not mean you should.
When the soul enters the body, the heart starts to beat.
You’re right. They’re commies.
““There is much work to be done to determine the similarities and differences between synthetic embryos and embryos that form from the union of an egg and a sperm.””
Yes indeed...there is much “more” work to be done playing God. And considering the results of some of mankind’s other “creations”, none of this is going to end well.
So it will be a baby in 9 month and 10 days!!!
……Whatcha mean “no?”
Scientists are growing animals in artificial wombs. Humans might be next.
6/12/2023, 11:43:08 AM | by Red Badger | 78 replies
FreeThink | June 10, 2023 | By Kristin Houser
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4160268/posts
In the year 2525??
The "combat model" looks cool.
The "basic pleasure model" ain't bad, either.
Definitely an improvement over the earlier "standard labor model."
Just doing the jobs real humans won't do!
Regards,
there are currently no clear regulations governing stem cell derived models of human embryos
Those “stem cells” came from someone. They didn’t just spontaneously grow in a petri dish. So, whoever they came from is the legal owner. It’s their DNA.
Frankly, this is a “copyright” or “trademark” law that needs to be set - DNA is solely owned by the person from whom it originates.
and dynamite was nifty until people started blowing themselves up
Looping in the movie ping list.
I have not pinged the movie list for awhile, but I had filed this one away for use at some point as "The Best Pro-Life Movie You Have Never Seen." It is on point here, so I'll add it to the discussion.
My recurring mantra, as the movie peeps know, is that reality is conservative (i.e., we live in a coherent, morally ordered universe). As a result, writers and filmmakers who want to be honest storytellers may consider themselves personally liberal -- and given the film industry's bias, that's the protective coloration many take on as a near-necessity -- but they will often produce surprisingly conservative work because truth will out. This is a good example.
Never Let Me Go" was a 2005 dystopian novel by Kazuo Ishiguro that was adapted into a 2010 British film. So, for those who tend to begin with ritual denunciations of all things Hollywood, this is Japanese source material and a British film. I have no idea if anyone associated with this movie considers himself pro-life; I would be slightly surprised if any of them did. In fact, most of them might running screaming from the room if they managed to connect the dots, like vampires fleeing a dinner party because an observant and suspicious host had hidden garlic under the napkins. But here they are.
Someone who has seen the film will pop up to point out that the movie never mentions abortion. No, it doesn't. It's in the next silo. How to get a pro-life message into a modern film? Here's one way. I wonder if any of the filmmakers yet realize what they have done, but truth will out. Truth is sneaky that way. The underlying issue is the intrinsic value of human life.
Why do I insert it here?
For those who have not seen the film, the children and young adults who comprise most of the characters have been created and carefully raised as organ donors. Their body parts will be harvested until they die; the "third donation" seems to be a recurring motif as the point of likely termination, although donations can get more prolonged and much darker than that. How are they created? The movie doesn't specify that, but cloning and/or artificial insemination and some kind of artificial womb -- think Brave New World -- would seem likely.
And here we are, in reality. We're getting there maybe faster than Kazuo Ishiguro imagined. Or maybe not.
What I've said above is not a spoiler. Viewers will learn about the organ harvesting rather early, at the same time that the children do. The spoiler lies in the twist, late in the film, when we finally learn why Hailsham, the boarding school in which the lead characters were raised, was special.
Think adjacent silos, with the question being the intrinsic value of human life. And here we are.
I’m hoping we really are on the verge of civilization collapse.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.