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To: tnsaf who started this subject6/23/2004 9:38:21 PM
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Human Embryo Cloning To Aid Regenerative Medicine Research

Thursday, June 24, 2004

TOKYO (Nikkei)--The Council for Science and Technology Policy bioethics subcommittee's decision to recommend that the government lift its ban on studies on cloned human embryos will likely accelerate research on the use of embryonic stem cells in regenerative medicine.

Although cloning of human embryos has been banned in Japan, studies on developing blood vessels and nerve cells from human embryonic stem cells have been carried out at universities and research institutes around the nation.

A joint research team of Kyoto University and Tanabe Seiyaku Co. (4508) has already succeeded in developing blood vessels from human embryonic stem cells imported from Australia. Led by Kazuwa Nakao, a professor in Kyoto University's medicine and clinical science department, the team hopes that its research will be used to repair damage caused by angina and arteriosclerosis.

The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) R&D center in Kobe recently began work on the development of nerve cells from human embryonic stem cells. With the advancement in this field potentially leading to a cure for Parkinson's disease, a Kyoto University team plans to launch a similar project.

But commercial applications of these research projects will still be far off since transplantation of human embryonic stem cells is not allowed.

The lifting of the ban on research on cloned human embryos also extends only to the stages before clinical testing.

Unlike normal cells, embryonic stem cells can grow into any tissues and organs.

(The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Thursday morning edition)
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