4 Ethics-Breaking Biological Experiments Touted By Chinese Scientists as ‘World Firsts’
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Throughout the world, scientific research and experiments involving ethical issues must first pass the scrutiny of ethics committees. In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has conducted many experiments in the field of biomedical and genetic engineering that break human ethical boundaries.
China began implementing the Ethical Review of Biomedical Research Involving Humans on Dec. 1, 2016. However, 122 Chinese scientists who co-signed an open letter in 2018 to oppose gene-edited babies criticized China’s biomedical ethics review as a “sham.”
In the United States, as ethical and moral regulations on animal research have become stricter, budgets and funding have tended to decrease in recent years, making China the most attractive place for such experiments. For example, in 2014, the U.S. government imposed a funding pause of gain of function research involving in
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Proponents say chimera experiments could lead to a new source of transplant organs. An image from a timelapse of the monkey-human chimera Cell
Monkey embryos containing human cells have been developed in a laboratory, a study by a global team of researchers confirms.
The development sparks new debate on the ethics of experiments on chimera embryos, whose cells come from two different species.
In the new study, the researchers, led by Prof Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte from the Salk Institute in the US, detail their experiments with cells from a long-tailed macaque and a human. They reveal that the cells can survive and even multiply when matched together.
Despite the controversial
World Health Organization (WHO) report that dismissed the lab leak theory as the origin of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), it is still widely believed that the disease originated from a virus at the
This is why German scientist Dr. Roland Wiesendanger found it “inexcusable and irresponsible” that some countries were outsourcing risky biotechnological research in China.
But many countries, particularly in Europe, prohibit some forms of biotechnological research for ethical reasons. China, on the other hand, has no qualms in carrying out all kinds of dangerous and ethically controversial research.
Because of these circumstances, China is “viewed as a dumping ground and giant test tube for all kinds of dangerous and ethically controversial research outlawed by Western countries, similar to how it became a dumping ground for recyclable waste in past decades,” according to Christina Lin, a California-based foreign and security policy analyst.