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China's policies on stem cell research: an opportunity for international collaborations

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The Science & Society articles by Richard O. Hynes (US policies on human embryonic stem cells. Nature Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 9, 993–997 (2008))1 and Robin Lovell-Badge (The regulation of human embryo and stem-cell research in the United Kingdom. Nature Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 9, 998–1003 (2008))2 discuss the policies on human embryonic stem (ES) cell research in the United States and the United Kingdom, respectively. As China is the largest developing country with a population of over 1.3 billion, a brief description of the regulation of stem cell research in this country would provide a better picture of the worldwide progress of this field.

Whereas UK and US policies have been frequently amended, stem cell research in China is regulated by only one guideline, which was jointly issued by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Health in December 2003 (see the China Stem Cell website (in Chinese); for the proposal in English, see Ref. 3). As yet there have been no amendments to this guideline.

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  1. Xi Jin and You-ming Li are at the Digestive Department and Lin Zheng is at the Infectious Disease Department of the First Affiliated Hospital, Medical School, Zhejiang University, 79 Qingchun Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China.,

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  2. Ruo-heng Zheng is at the Reproductive Department, the Red-Cross Hospital of Hangzhou, 208 Huan Cheng Dong Road, Zhejiang 310003, China.,

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Jin, X., Zheng, L., Zheng, Rh. et al. China's policies on stem cell research: an opportunity for international collaborations. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 10, 286 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrm2528-c1

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