(OSV News) -- When the International Society for Stem Cell Research recently held its annual meeting in Boston, the more than 4,000 assembled scientists from 75 countries were promised 'the future starts here.'
That future, they were told -- in a plenary address by professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz of the University of Cambridge in England and the California Institute of Technology -- now includes synthetic human embryos.
'We can create human embryo-like models by the reprogramming of (embryo