Tag: Human embryonic development

Biochemist Jose Polo poses next to his fake human embryo photos. Monash University scientists have managed to create something like a one-week person

Law banning human cloning has temporarily halted the discovery by a Melbourne-led team that they could grow human embryos in a laboratory using skin cells. But a government research council believes the law isn't the only thing preventing these embryos from becoming clones.

An international research team led by scientists from Melbourne is generating the first model of early human embryos from skin cells.