• neuropean@kbin.social
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      6 months ago

      Ethical research guidelines bar any attempts to culture human embryos beyond 14 days of gestation, so as usual it’s clickbait and not something that will be explored anytime soon.

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      As a general concept, sure. Actually making it happen in a petri dish can be detail-intensive and unreliable, which is why we haven’t been doing it routinely for decades.