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Ep. 118: ‘State of the Union’ on Biomedical Research

Bioethics on Air

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The Importance of Embryo Models

There's some subtlety here that if you are doing this and you're engendering embryo models, on what grounds are you going to be able to say that this is not an embryo? So it may be much like a miscarriage where miscarriage is a real human baby but oftentimes those miscarried babies did have some defect. I'm convinced scientists should do all these experiments in animals first. But don't do this with any human material, because you just don't know what you're getting.

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