A group of Israeli scientists managed to grow in the tubes of mice embryos in test tubes and now plans to spend the same experience, but already with human germ.
Rosbalt, with reference to Daily Mail, writes that researchers of the Weitman’s Scientific Institute announced that they can grow a human embryo in five weeks. They have already grown mice embryos in a test tube, simulating the “natural uterus”.
Scientists seized the embryo in the mouse and placed in a test tube filled with oxygen and nutrients. The test tube rotated so that the solution all the time moved and satuned the embryo with nutrients, also scientists controlled another number of parameters. As a result, less than 7 days the mouse embryo has developed a beating heart, head, stomach and limbs.
The next stage of the study could be human embryos, but the law prohibits the development of the human embryo for a period of more than two weeks. And according to the principles of biology, which were considered indisputable for thirty years, to grow embryos in a test tube after two weeks it is impossible: it must either die or attach to the wall of the uterus for further toaling. For growing human embryo, it takes five weeks.