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Weekly reads & stem cell news: New York axes NYSTEM, fetal tissue rules reversed, pubs & more

It's been a week with a wide variety of regenerative medicine papers and stem cell news. Here's my earlier take from a few days ago on the Belmonte-led human-monkey chimeric embryo paper in Cell that broke this week. https://youtu.be/YXZSKKNkA0E A few days ago I also put up a new video on our Stem Cell YouTube Channel on fact-checking the idea …
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Monkey human embryo chimera Cell paper: exciting, ethically complex direction

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A new Cell paper from an international team led by Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte pushes human embryo chimera embryo research further than ever before. It is both exciting work and raises many complex bioethics questions at the same time. What is a human embryo chimera? By way of background, chimeric human embryos contain a mixture of human cells and those …