@article{39c6a89aac3d47caa6419c8b586fd260,
title = "Time to rethink the law on part-human chimeras",
abstract = "It may soon be possible to generate human tissues and organs inside of part-human chimeras via a technique known as interspecies blastocyst complementation. Using Australian legislation as a case study, we show why this technique of creating part-human chimeras falls within the gaps of existing legislation. We give an overview of the key ethical issues raised by part-human chimera research, and we describe how well these issues are met by a range of possible regulatory approaches. We ultimately argue that regulation of part-human chimera research should be (re)designed to balance two key aims: to facilitate ethical research involving part-human chimeras and to prevent unethical experimentation with chimeras that have an uncertain - and potentially substantial - degree of moral status.",
keywords = "chimera, moral status, stem cell research and practice",
author = "Koplin, {Julian J.} and Julian Savulescu",
note = "Funding Information: JS acknowledges the support of Wellcome Trust Grant 203132/Z/16/Z. JK and JS acknowledge the support of the Victorian State Government through the Operational Infrastructure Support Program. Funding Information: 16 Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2002, supra note 9. 17 Assisted Human Reproduction Act, S.C. 2004, C.2 18 Franc¸oise Baylis & Jason Scott Robert, Part-Human Chimeras: Worrying the Facts, Probing the Ethics, 7 AM. J. BIOETH. 41, 42 (2007); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Cana-dian Institutes of Health Research, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (2014), http://www.pre.ethics.gc.ca/ pdf/eng/tcps2-2014/TCPS 2 FINAL Web.pdf (last accessed Aug. 10, 2018). 19 Gretchen Vogel, Major Grant in Limbo. NIH Revisits Ethics of Animal-Human Chimeras, 350 SCIENCE 261 (2015). 20 National Research Council (US) and Institute of Medicine (US) Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Ad-visory Committee, National Academies{\textquoteright} Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Amended as of May 2010, §7.3 (2010), https://www.nap.edu/read/12923/ (last accessed Aug. 10, 2018). 21 Human Chimera Prohibition Act, S.1373, 109th Cong. (2005). 22 Human-Animal Chimera Prohibition Act, H.R. 6131, 114th Cong. (2016). 23 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, c. 220, §4A (2008). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 The Author(s).",
year = "2019",
month = jul,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1093/jlb/lsz005",
language = "English",
volume = "6",
pages = "37--50",
journal = "Journal of Law and the Biosciences",
issn = "2053-9711",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "1",
}