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'Synthetic embryo' breakthrough but growing human organs far off
If human organs could one day be grown in a lab, the technique could provide life-saving transplants for thousands of people every year.
Stem cell scientist Jacob Hanna of Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science holds mouse 'synthetic embryos' grown in a lab /AFP FILE
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision
Stem cell scientists say they have created "synthetic embryos" without using sperm, eggs or fertilisation for the first time, but the prospect of using such a technique to grow human