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India’s Stem Cell Guidelines Mandate Additional Checks

 
• By Anju Ghangurde

Draft update to national guidelines factors in additional safeguards and makes it mandatory to establish institutional panels to review stem cell research. Gene editing would be an area of "restrictive" research.

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Organizations working in India on stem cell research would be mandatorily required to establish an internal review committee specifically to focus on these projects and register it with a government oversight panel, under a proposed update to the country's draft National Guidelines for Stem Cell Research 2017.

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