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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 08/21/2022 - 10:33am

(At least, not initially, there are too many potential rabbit holes to be explored)

the-worlds-first-synthetic-embryo-complete-with-beating-heart-and-brain-beginning-no-sperm-or-egg-required

https://boingboing.net/2022/08/04/this-is-the-worlds-first-synthetic-emb...

Yes, indeedy, it's Parthenogenesis

be well and have a good one

edit - added "the-worlds-first-synthetic-embryo-complete-with-beating-heart-and-brain-beginning-no-sperm-or-egg-required"

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Submitted by The Liberal Moonbat on Sun, 08/21/2022 - 10:58am
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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 08/21/2022 - 11:12am
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@The Liberal Moonbat

be well and have a good one

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Submitted by JtC on Sun, 08/21/2022 - 11:05am

With plans to create realistic synthetic embryos, grown in jars, Renewal Bio is on a journey to the horizon of science and ethics.

This startup wants to copy you into an embryo for organ harvesting

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 08/21/2022 - 1:17pm
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@JtC

is any meaningful horizon between science and ethics anymore. I suspect that they are non-intersecting disciplines and concept sets. Ethics, today, is nothing more than an obscure and obsolete ancient branch of philosophy.

be well and have a good one.

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Submitted by The Liberal Moonbat on Tue, 08/23/2022 - 8:22am
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@JtC ...they're ripping off movies bad enough to have been on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 - AND to have already been ripped off by bigger, lazier studios: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts%3A_The_Clonus_Horror#Lawsuit

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

Submitted by ovals49 on Sun, 08/21/2022 - 11:10am

When compared with natural mouse embryos, the synthetic embryos were 95% the same in terms of their internal structure and the genetic profiles of the cells.

Not bad for a first try, but quite a way to go for cloning or synthetic organs. Sparing animals from vivisection or other experiments would be grand, but I find implication for human tissue farming and/or organ harvesting rather terrifying.

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Submitted by Snode on Sun, 08/21/2022 - 12:00pm

@ovals49 is far enough apart for food. Soylent green doesn't have to be people. It can just be "people like".

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Submitted by QMS on Sun, 08/21/2022 - 11:10am

How do you like your eggs?
Scrambled poached or fried?
Uh, oh Roscoe.

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Submitted by doh1304 on Sun, 08/21/2022 - 5:40pm

@QMS
It was Musk who talks about a physical connection between the brain and the internet. In the 1980s science fiction ("cyberpunk") writers called it "jacking". Gates has been accused of hiding nanotech in vaccines to control human behavior. This is a Pentagon idea from the 1970s.

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