{"title":"Human embryo models made from pluripotent stem cells are not synthetic; they aren't embryos, either.","authors":"Hannah L Landecker, Amander T Clark","doi":"10.1016/j.stem.2023.09.006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Embryo models are potentially highly impactful for human health research because their development recapitulates otherwise inaccessible events in a poorly understood area of biology, the first few weeks of human life. Casual reference to these models as \"synthetic embryos\" is misleading and should be approached with care and deliberation.</p>","PeriodicalId":93928,"journal":{"name":"Cell stem cell","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10927377/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cell stem cell","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2023.09.006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Embryo models are potentially highly impactful for human health research because their development recapitulates otherwise inaccessible events in a poorly understood area of biology, the first few weeks of human life. Casual reference to these models as "synthetic embryos" is misleading and should be approached with care and deliberation.