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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Martin Bagot

Synthetic organ cells grown in a lab for first time after 'game changing' research

The first ever animal organs have been grown in a lab that did not involve fertilising an egg.

Israeli scientists have cultured a mouse embryo in a petri dish from stem cells before growing it to form a brain, gut, nervous system and a beating heart.

It raised the prospect that “synthetic” animals - even humans - could be grown from stem cells in a petri dish without using a donor egg or sperm.

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