“Synthetic” Human Embryos Created

[Andiamo]

https://www.theguardian.com/science...man-embryos-created-in-groundbreaking-advance

Quote from article:

In a major scientific first, synthetic human embryo models have been grown in the lab, without any need for the usual natural ingredients of eggs and sperm.

This just horrified me to my core when I heard of this. What next?
No way these could have a soul. Right?

 

[mattfivefour]

Well, from what I have read, these are merely collections of cells that form themselves into an embryonic similarity. The media has blown this up into something it is not.

 

[Andiamo]

Well, from what I have read, these are merely collections of cells that form themselves into an embryonic similarity. The media has blown this up into something it is not.

I should have known. It’s still disgusting and creepy though.