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What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos

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There is no specific regulation governing such research in the U.S.; it’s just that the federal government won’t fund the research. This “rejuvenation” of mature cell types was the revolutionary discovery of the Japanese biologist Shinya Yamanaka, which won him a share of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.)

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