Non-viable embryos created with synthetic DNA

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Trends in Biotechnology (2025)
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It is plausible that in the future synthetic DNA (synDNA) technology could enable the creation of non-viable embryos for research, potentially bypassing ethical objections to embryo experimentation. This article explores how the technology might work, the ethical concerns it might mitigate, and the challenges that remain.

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Adrian Villalba
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (PhD)
Anna Smajdor
University of Oslo
Iain Brassington
University of Manchester
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The Ethical Case against Stem Cell Research.Søren Holm - 2003 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 12 (4):372-383.

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