Artificial embryos have dominated the dialogue on #devbio Twitter over the previous few weeks, following ground-breaking publications from the Hanna and Zernicka-Goetz labs. The labs have produced artificial mouse embryos with astonishing similarity to the ‘actual factor’, which has prompted discussions on the place this know-how can go subsequent, the excellence between embryo-like fashions and actual embryos, moral implications and accountable reporting to most people. With incredible timing, subsequent Monday (12 September) at 16.00 BST, we might be live-streaming our panel dialogue on technical, moral and authorized challenges of learning early human improvement from our Journal assembly on human improvement, the place we count on to cowl a number of the subjects mentioned on Twitter in additional depth. The stream of our panel dialogue, in addition to talks from Sarah Teichmann and Sergiu Pasca, might be hosted on the Node. For now, now we have picked out just a few of our favorite Tweets and replies so that you can learn (to take a look at the dialogue, easy click on on the tweets beneath).
We’re after all enthusiastic about our embryo-like mannequin however want to stress that it is necessary not to think about our embryo-model as being an actual embryo – even whether it is getting near the true factor
— Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
(@ZernickaGoetz) August 26, 2022
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