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Moving towards asexual reproduction in humans? Embryos developed without fertilisation

The development of an artificial mouse embryo outside a mother's womb without the need for sperm or eggs is a major step forward in synthetic biology. The tiny embryo was constructed purely from stem cells, opening up intriguing but ethically problematic prospects for the future possibility of growing a live animal, including humans, solely from cultivated stem cells in a laboratory.