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ArticleEMBO reports2025

Regulating stem cell-based embryo model research in Japan : Proposals, debates, and future directions.

Tsutomu Sawai, Shu Ishida, Chie Kobayashi, Yasuna Murase, Gyo Nakao, Tomonori Nakamura, Julian Savulescu

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Article in EMBO reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Human Stem Cell-Based Embryo Model Research: Ethics and Regulations.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Tsutomu SawaiGraduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan. tstmsw@hiroshima-u.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3806-0573
Shu IshidaUehiro Division for Applied Ethics, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7532-6086
Chie KobayashiUehiro Division for Applied Ethics, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-5388-4549
Yasuna MuraseGraduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-1580-8445
Gyo NakaoUehiro Division for Applied Ethics, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-1092-1070
Tomonori NakamuraInstitute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0173-0780
Julian SavulescuYong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1691-6403

Funding

MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 24K00039, 24H00813MEXT | JST | Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX) JPMJRS22J4Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education (UFEE) UEHIRO2023-0121
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Abstract

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PMID40087470
PMCPMC11977183

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