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SKOKIE, Illinois, March 18, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — An international body of scientists representing the stem cell research community plans to lift the current “ethical” ruling that embryos can only be grown for up to 14 days for the purposes of stem cell research, allowing human embryos to be cultured indefinitely.
The “14-day rule,” first published in 1979, has been in effect for over 40 years and has been incorporated into law in some countries, including the U.K. and Japan, but only exists as a guideline in the U.S. and China, among others.
The MIT Technology Review published a report on the International Society for Stem Cell Research’s (ISSCR) proposed extension to the hard limit. The ISSCR, which the Review noted has become the industry’s “de facto ethics regulator,” is considering the change in its current ruling “because of an onrush of new, boundary-busting research,” rather than being due to ethical considerations, the report said.
As an example, the Review details that a number of labs are now in the process of creating human-animal hybrids, or chimeras, from human
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