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2021-07
Zubin Master , Robin Lovell-Badge , Bartha Knoppers
A small group of ISSCR affiliates respond to letters from authors who have advocated keeping the 14-day limit.
2021-06
Josephine Johnston , Françoise Baylis , Henry T. Greely
The authors, renowned bioethicists, responded in June 2021 to the recent May update to the ISSCR guidelines.
2021-06
Françoise Baylis
Bioethicist Françoise Baylis draws attention to the revised 2021 ISSCR guidelines for stem cell research and clinical translation, for leaving open the question of the permissibility of human genome editing.
2021-06
Eric Anthony , Robin Lovell-Badge , Sean J. Morrison
The authors, some of whom are ISSCR affiliates involved in the production of the 2021 guidelines, provide an overview of topics that were updated in the guidelines (chimeric embryos, mitochondrial replacement techniques, stem cell-based embryo models).
2021-06
Brendan Foht
The editor of the New Atlantis writes a thought-provoking essay about what he perceives as a lack of limits in biomedical research, expressing concern for research on human-monkey chimeras, and by extension, the 14-day rule of embryo culture.