TLDNR: Researchers created synthetic embryos without either eggs or sperm. Like many great discoveries, it was partly by accident. They were trying to create stem cells from human skin. They are insisting that the results are just models rather than real embryos, and that they have not actually created life. But it's clear that this approach could be developed much further - ethics aside, of course.
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