On March 17th, the journal Nature published the research of two groups of scientists who have created what they’ve termed “blastoids”: living, stem cell-derived, lab-created organisms which closely resemble human embryos at the blastocyst (pre-implantation) stage.  Jun Wu, leader of one of the teams of researchers, is based at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical … Continue reading Researchers create organisms nearly identical to humans… for experimentation