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Researchers Keep Lab Grown Human Embryo Alive for 13 Days

Researchers have broken the record for growing a human embryo in the laboratory and keeping it alive beyond the stage when it would naturally implant in a mother’s womb. The human embryo was grown in a lab  for twice the length of time previously possible in what has been hailed as a breakthrough that could “revolutionise” medicine…..but it also raises fresh ethical questions about when life begins.

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