Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz is the Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology and a Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Development at the University of Cambridge. She explains how these ‘synthetic’ embryos are built and the limits of their similarity to natural embryos grown from fertil.
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What is a synthetic embryo, and what can it be used for?Creating embryo-like structures in the labWhere synthetic embryos might leadSort: