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The moral status of human embryo‐like structures: potentiality matters?
Author(s) -
Sawai Tsutomu,
Minakawa Tomohiro,
Pugh Jonathan,
Akatsuka Kyoko,
Yamashita Jun K,
Fujita Misao
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.15252/embr.202050984
Subject(s) - embryo , biology , environmental ethics , political science , evolutionary biology , microbiology and biotechnology , philosophy
New techniques to generate and culture embryo‐like structures from stem cells require a more fine‐grained distinction of potential to define the moral status of these structures.