Israeli scientists create world's first synthetic embryo, without sperm

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: August 09 2022

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The world's first artificial embryo has been created.
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute in Israel did not need any fertilized eggs or any sperm for this.
The embryos created by the scientists at Rehovot’s Weizmann Institute of Science are “synthetic” because their creation didn’t involve an egg or sperm, or even a mouse’s uterus.
In research published in the journal Medical Science, the team developed embryos from rat stem cells. It was kept in the laboratory in a special kind of vessel for years. From which a complete embryo has developed from the parent cells itself.

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Israeli scientists create world's first synthetic embryo, without sperm