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A ‘synthetic’ embryo with a brain and beating heart has been created by British scientists.

The results could be used to guide repair and development of synthetic, or artificial, human organs for transplantation, experts suggest.

“They basically told me there was nothing wrong with me. I wasn’t going to sit there for hours to be told nothing was wrong.”

Children, even some who are too young for school, know you can’t make a baby without sperm and an egg. But a team of researchers in Israel have called into question the basics of what we teach children about the birds and the bees, and created a mouse embryo using…

New research pins baldness to a single chemical

All of these advances are in mice for now, but maybe these breakthroughs can one day be adapted as human therapies.

Scientists have developed a new stem cell therapy that could treat certain forms of genetic blindness that have long evaded even cutting-edge methods. But this breakthrough will likely require immunosuppressive drugs to be effective.

In what’s reported as a world-first achievement, biologists have grown mouse embryo models in the lab without the need for fertilised eggs, embryos, or even a mouse – using only stem cells and a special incubator.

How muscle stem cells activate themselves to repair damaged tissue has boggled scientists. Now we know hyaluronic acid might be the key.