# @doctorazmain on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DBv2Zl3tJuh
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63477203-doctorazmain-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-10-30T12:07:22.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dr Azmain Chowdhury (@doctorazmain) — https://gondola.cc/doctorazmain

## Caption

📦🧬 This package from the future could revolutionise the future of medicine!

It's not every day you get a delivery from a company from the future. I wish this was real, but it's not. So what's happening?

Academics @londonschoolofeconomics have created this fascinating little kit from a fictional company called @cell.yourself, offering us a window into what the future of personalised healthcare might look like based on breakthroughs happening in stem cell research today. They want to hear your perspective to help inform rules and regulations on how that research is conducted. Read on to learn more and have your say in the comments section.

Stem cell technology could revolutionise medicine. It could rewrite how to start a family. It could extend our lives. It could mean we can regenerate our bodies at any age. But to get to this, scientists need to confront some challenging ethical questions about how we use something called 'embryo models' in the lab today, so we can put in place appropriate rules and regulations.

What are 'embryo models' you might ask? Embryo models are created in a lab from stem cells, and they model or mimic the early stages of human embryo development.

Therefore, how we use them presents a number of important ethical questions. Now you know a little bit about them, I'd love you to answer the three questions below in the comments section

1. In three words, how does the idea that a handful of skin cells could be turned into human eggs, sperm, an organ, blood, or embryo model make you feel?

2. Do you think there should be limits on how scientists use embryo models in the lab? If so, how and why?

3. What is the biggest question you have about the use of embryo models in stem cell research?

LSE will be taking what they hear to MPs and policy makers in parliament later this year, so it's a great opportunity to have your voice heard on a hugely important area of medical research!

Check out the links in bio on the @cell.yourself Instagram channel for more fascinating information in The New Facts of Life podcast and online quiz.

#thenewfactsoflife #sponsored #DoctorAzmain #ThePopUpDocs @thepopupdocs

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