Human Embryos Without Heads to Be Grown in Mechanical Wombs

The craziest stuff is being planned as a new commercial startup project.

Apparently, a team of Israeli entrepreneurs is planning to grow human embryos in artificial wombs. After they grow, organs could be harvested from such infants. To avoid ethical dilemmas, human embryos will be grown without heads. No kidding.

The article does not explain how growing human embryos without heads would “avoid ethical dilemmas," leaving the reader needing to figure it out on their own.

The idea of this startup is to:

➨ take stem cells from any given individual, such as you or me.

➨ modify the genetic code of those stem cells to prevent the formation of a human head (or brain) when developing as an embryo.

➨ seed these genetically modified cells into a jar serving as an artificial womb and grow an artificial human embryo, but without a head.

➨ According to the startup, this somehow “avoids ethical dilemmas."

Although they don't think an artificial embryo made from stem cells and kept in a lab will ever count as a human being, they have a contingency plan to make sure there is no confusion.

It’s now possible, for instance, to genetically engineer the starting cells so the resulting model embryo never develops a head. Restricting its potential could help avoid ethical dilemmas, they say.

Would you pay to grow a headless copy of yourself to harvest organs? Do you think there are no ethical problems?

Source: Igor Chudov

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