Japan Today
health

Lab-grown human 'embryos' offer new research hope

5 Comments
By Sara HUSSEIN

The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below.

© 2023 AFP

©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.

5 Comments

Comments have been disabled You can no longer respond to this thread.

It does seem like really interesting research. I'm not sure what the upset is as cloned embryos are basically artificial and it seems like there is widespread research there.

1 ( +4 / -3 )

I'm not sure what the upset is as cloned embryos are basically artificial and it seems like there is widespread research there

Mostly because there is no reason why the embryos could not be theoretically developed further, and since there is no hard objective limit about what constitutes a human the only ethically correct option is to make sure experimentation ends long before the embryos could be considered as such. Without those limits people could be doing something that later will be characterized as human experimentation.

Of course the point where the embryos could be developed to that point is still in the future, but ethical determinations are much more useful when they are done before it becomes possible.

-2 ( +4 / -6 )

Now imagine, you are that embryo

-3 ( +1 / -4 )

YuujuToday 04:06 pm JST

Now imagine, you are that embryo

If you came from that embryo: in that case you would be like any identical twin or possibly not even an identical twin but a unique human depending on how they got the cells. If know one tells you how you were made you would never know.

If you were terminated like that embryo, well, let's just say blastocysts die by the millions everyday. They can't all be saved nor should we try to.

0 ( +2 / -2 )

TaiwanIsNotChina

is it the same logic as they say that people around the world die every day either way so what's the deal?

so, you say you would be perfectly fine being that embryo, I see

-1 ( +0 / -1 )

Articles, Offers & Useful Resources

A mix of what's trending on our other sites