Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A mouse embryo with a beating heart has been grown in a petri dish.It is being hailed as a "major step forward" in creating organs for transplant.Dr Christine Thisse said: "Watching an embryo develop is a marvellous thing to behold."We were able to produce embryo formation in a dish using stem cells as building bricks."The scientist from the University of Virginia, US, added: "We found a way to instruct aggregates of stem cells to initiate embryonic development"In response, the aggregates develop into embryo-like entities.
What is amazing is that we can get the variety of tissues that are present in an authentic mouse embryo."This is essential to be able one day to produce functional.
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