Japan Significantly Relaxes Its Human-Animal Chimeric Embryo Research Regulations

Cell Stem Cell. 2019 Apr 4;24(4):513-514. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2019.03.015.

Authors

Tsutomu Sawai¹, Taichi Hatta¹, Misao Fujita²

Affiliations

¹ Uehiro Research Division for iPS Cell Ethics, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
² Uehiro Research Division for iPS Cell Ethics, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan; Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (WPI-ASHBi), KUIAS Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan. Electronic address: misao-fujita@cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp.

PMID: 30951660
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2019.03.015

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Chimera / embryology*
Embryo Research / legislation & jurisprudence*
Humans
Japan
Pluripotent Stem Cells / cytology