N-gated Hacker NewsMar 23, 2025
🌱🔬 Scientists play god with stem cells, because who needs real embryos when you can have "embryoids"? 🤖🧬 We're one pipette away from a #petri #dish #revolution. 🍳🥚
https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/shariati-cellstemcell-25.html #stemcells #embryoids #biotech #science #HackerNews #ngated
Scientists program stem cells to mimic first days of embryonic development

Using CRISPR-based engineering methods to prompt stem cells to organize into embryo-like structures, scientists at UC Santa Cruz were able to create “programmable” cellular models of embryos without ever experimenting with any actual embryos.

UC Santa Cruz News
DRZE | BonnOct 16, 2023

BMBF conference
#HumanEmbryos in #MedicalResearch:
Taboo? - Justifiable? - Chance?

In the workshop "Framework of research on and with human pluripotent stem cells and human cellular entities (-oids)", key issues and framework conditions of new legislative initiatives were intensively discussed. Afterwards, Dirk Lanzerath presented the outcomes to the plenary and the Ministry.

https://www.gesundheitsforschung-bmbf.de/ELSA-Konferenz/15650.php

#StemCellResearch #StemCells #Embryos #Embryoids #Organoids #Legislation
@bmbf_bund

Human embryos in medical research: Taboo? - Justifiable? - Opportunity? - DLR Gesundheitsforschung

Research on early embryos and cell structures generated in laboratories offer new perspectives for health research and medicine. Meanwhile ethical questions arise. A conference provides the opportunity for critical reflection and discussion.

Deutsche Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt e.V. - DLR Gesundheitsforschung
DRZE | BonnOct 2, 2023

BMBF conference
#HumanEmbryos in #MedicalResearch:
Taboo? - Justifiable? - Chance?

9 - 10 October 2023
Berlin

➡️ https://www.gesundheitsforschung-bmbf.de/ELSA-Konferenz/15650.php

Registration is open until 4 October:
https://registration.dlr-pt.de/en/humane-embryonen-in-der-medizinischen-forschung/registration

After the workshop "Framework of research on and with human pluripotent stem cells and human cellular entities ("-oids")", Dirk Lanzerath will present the outcomes.

#StemCellResearch #StemCells #Embryos #Embryoids #Organoids
@bmbf_bund

Human embryos in medical research: Taboo? - Justifiable? - Opportunity? - DLR Gesundheitsforschung

Research on early embryos and cell structures generated in laboratories offer new perspectives for health research and medicine. Meanwhile ethical questions arise. A conference provides the opportunity for critical reflection and discussion.

Deutsche Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt e.V. - DLR Gesundheitsforschung
CellBioNewsJun 20, 2023

#Embryoids shed light on a complex #genetic mechanism.

#genomics #HOX #CTCF

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-embryoids-complex-genetic-mechanism.html

Embryoids shed light on a complex genetic mechanism

Researchers from EPFL and the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have gained new insights into a mechanism regulating the early-stage development of mouse embryos. Instead of using an animal model, the team carried out their research on pseudo-embryos grown in the lab from stem cells.

Phys.org