Japan Approves First Human-Animal Embryo Experiments

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Japan Approves First Human-Animal Embryo Experiments


A Japanese stem-cell scientist is the first to receive government support to create animal embryos that contain human cells and transplant them into surrogate animals since a ban on the practice was overturned earlier this year. Hiromitsu Nakauchi, who leads teams at the University of Tokyo and Stanford University in California, plans to grow human cells in mouse and rat embryos and then transplant those embryos into surrogate animals. Nakauchi's ultimate goal is to produce animals with organs made of human cells that can, eventually, be transplanted into people.

Until March, Japan explicitly forbid the growth of animal embryos containing human cells beyond 14 days or the transplant of such embryos into a surrogate uterus. That month Japan's education and science ministry
issued new guidelines allowing the creation of human-animal embryos that can be transplanted into surrogate animals and brought to term. Nakauchi's experiments are the first to be approved under Japan's new rules, by a committee of experts in the science ministry. Final approval from the ministry is expected next month.
 

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Go from the Land of the Rising Sun to this brehs

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Since this is the goal, I support the effort to solve a problem. There's a reason why organ shortage is a problem in some countries while not in others
And it'll also cut down on the big ass organ black market too
Well in most countries
I bet in the us they'll cost even more than black market ones
 
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