Create monster embryos to prepare medicines

British scientists have applied for permission to carry out a strange research project, creating monster embryos, in order to find ways to prepare dangerous medicines for humans.

The application with this strange idea comes from Newcasstle University and Kings College, London. And if the application is submitted to the Commission for Human Embryology and Fertilization (HFEA) with a three-year study period accepted, monster embryos will for the first time come to life instead of only in fiction. .

Newcastle scientists are pioneering the field of germ cells by synthesizing human DNA with cow eggs (Photo: TP).

The British press calls the product of the research ' monster ' because it is the embryo made from human DNA combined with the cow's egg.

Cow embryos - people, according to scientists, will be used to study stem cells and promise not to allow anyone to grow the embryo to grow into monsters. To prevent that risk, they promise (in the application) that only embryos grow long enough to produce germ cells but will not exceed a few days old.

Researching stem cells is one of the promising areas of 21st century medicine. Stem cells are the body's master cells. A confirmed 5-day-old embryo is full of germ cells and each stem cell can grow into any part of the body.

By acquiring germ cells, new scientists can find the root cause of many serious diseases, first of all, neurological diseases such as paralysis (Parkingson), stroke and memory decline ( Alzheimer's. In order to achieve the goal for that noble career, they needed thousands of embryos and germ cells.

The problem is where to get embryos or eggs. In theory, human eggs are an almost endless source if the ovaries of each adult woman contain thousands of fruits. But to get human eggs is not simple. In addition to legal barriers there are technical difficulties such as having to perform surgery on humans for eggs. Scientists thought about the supply of animal eggs.

And their desire came true when they finished testing human DNA (carrying human genetic information) into a cow's egg after the egg was removed from the material bearing the genetic code of the cow.

As a result, they have a 99% human embryo-like embryo. The only small difference is that the cow is just DNA outside the nucleus. This whole technique of creating embryo, cow and human embryos is the same technique that created Sheep Dolly, the world's first cloned mammal.

That's why scientists want to use cow eggs as a substitute. They apply to authorities after mastering the technology process.

Dr. Stephen Minger, King's College London, said: ' With the current technical level, there is no other way but to need hundreds of eggs from young women to create a single human embryonic stem cell line ' .

' We want to know how human embryonic stem cell lines turn into diseased cells later. That research has just promoted basic science and helped develop new drugs to cure diseases of evil monsters '.

The lead researcher, Dr. Lyle Armstrong, said: ' If you understand from egg cells how to make stem cells from embryos without using any animal eggs, then and someday, we can cure the disease of Parkingson and, even, cure many other advanced age-related diseases that are a burden for society . '

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