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ArticleEMBO reports2026

What counts as an embryo? : The regulatory status of stem cell-based embryo models in Asia.

Tsutomu Sawai, Shu Ishida, Chie Kobayashi, Yasuna Murase Ando, Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai, Ji Hyun Yang, Ilhak Lee, Tamra Lysaght, Mohammad Firdaus Bin Abdul Aziz, Julian Savulescu

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10 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 Murase AndoFaculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-1580-8445
Daniel Fu-Chang TsaiGraduate Institute of Medical Education and Bioethics, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1962-8389
Ji Hyun YangDepartment of Medical Humanities, Chungnam National University College of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3590-9356
Ilhak LeeAsian Institute for Bioethics and Health Law, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6531-8752
Tamra LysaghtCentre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Mohammad Firdaus Bin Abdul AzizFaculty of Law, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Julian SavulescuCentre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. jsavules@nus.edu.sg.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1691-6403

Funding

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) JP24wm0425021MEXT | JSPS | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science London (JSPS) JP24K00039, JP24H00813MEXT | JST | Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX) JPMJRS22J4National University of Singapore under the NUS Start-Up Grant NUHSRO/2022/078/Startup/13Singapore Ministry of Health's National Medical Research Council under its Enablers and Infrastructure Support for Clinical Trials-related Activities Funding Initiative MOH-000951Social Science Research Council (Singapore), administered by the Ministry of Education, Singapore, under its Social Sciences Research Thematic Grant SSRC2023-SSRTG-006Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education (UFEE) UEHIRO2023-0124
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PMID42618750
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