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[–] Ace0fBlades 10 points 1 year ago

"The researchers stress it would be unethical, illegal and actually impossible to achieve a pregnancy using these embryo models - assembling the 120 cells together goes beyond the point an embryo could successfully implant into the lining of the womb"

Maybe at some point, but what they have now likely wouldn't become a person.