Debate Ethics of Embryo Models from Stem Cells

Overview

Journal Nature

Specialty Science

Date 2018 Dec 14

PMID 30542177

Citations 42

Authors

Nicolas Rivron

Martin Pera

Janet Rossant

Alfonso Martinez Arias

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

Jianping Fu

Susanne van den Brink

Annelien Bredenoord

Wybo Dondorp

Guido de Wert

Insoo Hyun

Megan Munsie

Rosario Isasi

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