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2 HEALTH AND LABORATORY MAGAZINE
A REVOLUTIONARY
No: 10 May 2024
STEP IN SCIENCE:
ISSN: 2148-953X
CHAIRMAN HUMAN EMBRYO
Süleyman GÜLER
EDITOR PRODUCED IN
Ecem KOÇER
GRAPHIC DESIGNER THE LABORATORY
Ayşe Damla ALKAN
ADVISORY BOARD
Professor Dr. Kadir HALKMAN
Professor Dr. Aziz EKŞİ
Melek MALKOÇ Scientists have
Exp. Yelda ZENCİR
Özlem Etiz SAĞDAŞ developed human embryo
Nevin KOÇAKER
models from stem cells
LEGAL ADVISORS
Lawyer Ersan BARKIN grown in the laboratory.
Lawyer Murat TEZCAN
FINANCIAL CONSULTANT
İrfan BOZYİĞİT
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Tel: +90 312 342 22 45 The models offer a unique But that first month is still Many birth defects also morphological similarity to
Fax: +90312 342 22 46 opportunity to study the largely a black box. Our occur during this period, the human embryo at day
bilgi@labmedya.com
critical first week after a stem cell-derived human but they are discovered 14,” Hanna added.
natural embryo attaches embryo model offers an much later.”
to the uterine wall. ethical and accessible way On the other hand,
of looking into that box. Our models can be used to Dr. Peter Rugg-Gunn,
Fertility, early pregnancy uncover the biochemical who studies embryo
termination and a In the new study, published and mechanical signals development at the
significant proportion in the peer-reviewed that ensure correct Babraham Institute, said
of developmental birth scientific journal Nature, development at this
defects occur at the stem cells from humans early stage, and how the study was “impressive”
www.prosigma.net beginning of pregnancy, were transformed into this development can go and “important” but noted
info@prosigma.net that not all features of
soon after the fertilized complex structures that wrong.
egg implants in the uterine mimic human embryonic early human embryos are
wall. development. On the other hand, lab- perfectly replicated.
grown creatures are illegal
DATE OF ISSUE Studying the early stages The models incorporated in many countries. So the For example, the
May 2024 - Ankara of embryo formation could all known components work also raises serious trophoblast, the precursor
therefore be essential to of early human embryos, ethical and legal issues. to the placenta, was
NOTE TO THE READER avoid these problems. including the epiblast, present but not properly
Published in the Labmedya But ethical and technical hypoblast, extraembryonic Teams that want to organized.
Newspaper featured challenges prevented mesoderm, trophoblast
in articles and articles develop embryos in the lab
Responsibility of opinions the study of these critical and yolk sac. can usually only grow these “This embryo model cannot
Broadcast LabMedya not to stages of human embryo constructs for 14 days. The develop if transferred to
its body and / or Prosigma development. “Here, we used pure human law does not allow them to the uterus because it has
Company, belongs to the embryonic stem cells that grow them any longer. skipped the stage needed
authors. Authors may have To overcome this, scientists have not been genetically to attach to the inside of
consultancy or other business have begun to create modified,” Hanna and his There is a race among
relationships with companies artificial embryos from colleagues wrote in their scientists to create such the uterus,” Rugg-Gunn
involved in their work. Ads stem cells in the laboratory. research paper: embryo models. said.
also; is the responsibility of
advertisers. The product Jacob Hanna, a molecular “We began to test our Source: Independent
information published on the In previous months, two Turkish, Science Alert,
product introduction pages geneticist at the Weizmann capacity to create natural separate research groups Guardian
are the presentations of the Institute of Science in Israel, embryo-like structures had developed embryos
relevant companies and the said: “Negative results that could mimic the from stem cells. However,
manufacturer Responsibility. appear in the first month. In different stages of human not all components of the
the remaining 8 months of development in the womb. embryo were created in
In addition to the Labmedya pregnancy, there is mostly those studies.
growth,” said Jacob Hanna, “Many pregnancy failures
WHAT IS LABMEDYA ? a molecular geneticist at occur in the first few weeks, “This is the first embryo
www.labmedya.com/english the Weinstein Institute of often before a woman even model with structural
Science in Israel: knows she is pregnant. compartments and