Human pseudo-embryos first created from skin cells

A team of scientists, led by the Argentine biochemist Jose Polo, has created human pseudo-embryos without using eggs or sperm, but from skin cells reprogrammed to return to an embryonic state. The advance, in the moving frontiers of bioethics, forces society to have a conversation as soon as possible: What legal status do these little balls of cells have that imitate a human embryo but are not? …