Chinese scientists create AI nanny to look after embryos in artificial womb [South China Morning Post, January 2022]

Title:

Chinese scientists create AI nanny to look after embryos in artificial womb

Author:

Stephen Chen

 

Published:

South China Morning Post, 31 January 2022

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3165325/chinese-scientists-create-ai-nanny-look-after-babies-artificial

From the article:

* Researchers in Suzhou have developed an AI system able to monitor and take care of embryos as they grow into fetuses in the lab 

* Technology won’t be a problem for its future application, but legal and ethical concerns might, warns Beijing-based researcher

First complete model of the human embryo [Scholarly Article - Nature, 17 Marc 2021]

Title:

First complete model of the human embryo 

 

Authors:

Yi Zheng & Jianping Fu

 

Published:

Nature, 17 March 2021

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00581-3

 

From the article:

Early in development, human embryos form a structure called the blastocyst. Two research groups have now generated human blastocyst-like structures from cells in a dish, providing a valuable model for advancing human embryology.