The American Public Is Ready to Accept Human-Animal Chimera Research

We report findings from a new survey of US public attitudes toward human-animal chimeric embryo (HACE) research, designed to compare with recently reported Japanese survey data. We find that 59% of the US public can personally accept the process of injecting human induced pluripotent stem cells into...

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Autores principales: Crane, Andrew T., Shen, Francis X., Brown, Jennifer L., Cormack, Warren, Ruiz-Estevez, Mercedes, Voth, Joseph P., Sawai, Tsutomu, Hatta, Taichi, Fujita, Misao, Low, Walter C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562947/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33007202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stemcr.2020.08.018
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Sumario:We report findings from a new survey of US public attitudes toward human-animal chimeric embryo (HACE) research, designed to compare with recently reported Japanese survey data. We find that 59% of the US public can personally accept the process of injecting human induced pluripotent stem cells into genetically modified swine embryos and having human tissues produced in a pig's body transplanted into a human. This is greater acceptance than in Japan, and there is even strong acceptance among those with strong religious affiliations and who self-identify as conservatives. We argue that strong public support for HACE research, as well as the emerging literature suggesting that humanization of research animals is very unlikely, should compel the NIH to lift its current moratorium on HACE research.

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