1st synthetic mouse embryos — complete with beating hearts and brains — created with no sperm, eggs or womb - Livescience.com

This is the first time such embryos have been made.

For the first time, scientists have created mouse embryos in the lab without using any eggs or sperm and watched them grow outside the womb. To achieve this feat, the researchers used only stem cells… [+4981 chars]

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