Artificial embryos, lab meat, science and ethics are up for debate

Valencia. The fact that technology and science are stranger than fiction is an irrefutable fact. There have been many advances in this field, such as the cloning of Dolly the ewe.

Now we save two great stories that will likely revolutionize the masses:

The fact that technology and science are stranger than fiction is an irrefutable fact. There have been many advances in this field, such as the cloning of Dolly the ewe.

Now we save two great stories that will likely revolutionize the masses:

artificial embryos

Amazement, wisdom and doubts. This is how a section of the scientific community reacted after the earthquake triggered by the knowledge that scientists from the University of Cambridge and Caltech had produced human embryos without eggs or sperm.

This group of researchers had artificially developed these human embryos using stem cells, which allowed them to dispense with the basic biological elements for their formation.

The research raises crucial legal and ethical questions, as the creation and management of artificial embryos lack regulations in many countries, including the United States. Once again, science is advancing and putting legislation in check, which poses new ethical challenges.

Laboratory grown meat

Perhaps we are witnessing a new era of food, with burgers, steaks and nuggets made from cells grown in steel tanks rather than traditional live animal farming and slaughter. These new products are of meat origin, they are not plant-based alternatives that mimic the flavor of meat or chicken.

Lab-grown meat is “farmed” in bioreactors, which are steel tanks called planters. Stem cells are introduced from a live animal, fertilized egg, or a special bank of cells stored there.

Selected cells are combined in a bioreactor with a specific serum that acts as the culture medium, a broth-like mixture that includes amino acids, fatty acids, sugars, salts, vitamins, and other elements that cells need to grow. Thus, in the steel tank, the environment that supplies the cells with nutrients necessary for development and reproduction is artificially recreated.

A new era of food is already being experienced by the United States.

Amazement, wisdom and doubts. This is how a section of the scientific community reacted after the earthquake triggered by the knowledge that scientists from the University of Cambridge and Caltech had produced human embryos without eggs or sperm.

This group of researchers had artificially developed these human embryos using stem cells, which allowed them to dispense with the basic biological elements for their formation.

The research raises crucial legal and ethical questions, as the creation and management of artificial embryos lack regulations in many countries, including the United States. Once again, science is advancing and putting legislation in check, which poses new ethical challenges.

Laboratory grown meat

Perhaps we are witnessing a new era of food, with burgers, steaks and nuggets made from cells grown in steel tanks rather than traditional live animal farming and slaughter. These new products are of meat origin, they are not plant-based alternatives that mimic the flavor of meat or chicken.

Lab-grown meat is “farmed” in bioreactors, which are steel tanks called planters. Stem cells are introduced from a live animal, fertilized egg, or a special bank of cells stored there.

Selected cells are combined in a bioreactor with a specific serum that acts as the culture medium, a broth-like mixture that includes amino acids, fatty acids, sugars, salts, vitamins, and other elements that cells need to grow. Thus, in the steel tank, the environment that supplies the cells with nutrients necessary for development and reproduction is artificially recreated.

A new era of food is already being experienced by the United States.