The moral value of induced pluripotent stem cells: a Japanese bioethics perspective on human embryo research
In contemporary Japan, at least in the field of regenerative medicine, human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are given no moral status and are treated in a purely instrumental way. However, some authors have mentioned the potentiality of hiPSCs in that ‘tetraploid complementation’ would make...
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2014
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2014, Volume: 40, Issue: 11, Pages: 766-769 |
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