{"id":95280,"date":"2019-08-25T19:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T02:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/japan-approves-groundbreaking-experiment-bringing-human-animal-hybrids-to-term"},"modified":"2019-08-25T19:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T02:02:36","slug":"japan-approves-groundbreaking-experiment-bringing-human-animal-hybrids-to-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/japan-approves-groundbreaking-experiment-bringing-human-animal-hybrids-to-term","title":{"rendered":"Japan Approves Groundbreaking Experiment Bringing Human-Animal Hybrids to Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-approves-groundbreaking-experiment-bringing-human-animal-hybrids-to-term2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stem cell biologist Hiromitsu Nakauchi has been waiting for this moment for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>After years of planning, the persistent researcher has at last received approval from a government willing to pursue one of the most controversial scientific studies there is: human-animal embryo experiments.<\/p>\n<p>While many countries around the world have restricted, defunded or outright banned these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5592304\/\">ethically-fraught practices<\/a>, Japan has now officially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-02275-3\">lifted the lid<\/a> on this proverbial Pandora\u2019s box. Earlier this year, the country made it legal to not only transplant hybrid embryos into surrogate animals, but also to bring them to term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stem cell biologist Hiromitsu Nakauchi has been waiting for this moment for more than a decade. After years of planning, the persistent researcher has at last received approval from a government willing to pursue one of the most controversial scientific studies there is: human-animal embryo experiments. While many countries around the world have restricted, defunded [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1490,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}