Science Japan gov't panel approves human embryo creation using iPS cells

https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-gov%27t-panel-approves-human-embryo-creation-using-ips-cells

https://archive.ph/3ORbC

July 25, 2025

A Japanese government panel on Thursday broadly agreed to allow the creation of human embryos using eggs or sperm derived from pluripotent stem cells such as iPS cells, but only for research purposes into matters such as infertility and hereditary diseases.

According to a report compiled by the expert panel on bioethics, the culture period of such embryos would be limited to a maximum of 14 days, as with conventional fertilized egg research, and implantation into a human or animal uterus would be prohibited.

The report will lay the groundwork for the government to consider revising relevant guidelines. The latest move raises ethical challenges as the implantation of an embryo into a uterus could potentially lead to the birth of a human being.

It is hoped studies will confirm whether human eggs and sperm derived from induced pluripotent stem cells or embryonic stem cells function normally. Both iPS cells and ES cells can grow into any type of cell in the body, but the former are generated using cells from an adult body such as skin, while the latter are taken from early-stage embryos.

While there have so far been no cases of eggs or sperm being created from human stem cells, research has advanced to the stage of producing precursor cells.

Offspring have already been born from such eggs and sperm in mice, and the expert panel has anticipated that similar advancements will soon become "technologically feasible" in humans.

The report said fertilized eggs created from stem cell-derived sperm or eggs should be handled in the same way as conventional fertilized eggs as they could "potentially lead to the birth of a human" if implanted.

It called for limiting the creation of such embryos to the minimum necessary number.

The activities will also be allowed for studies to compare the differences with ordinary fertilized eggs.

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[Susan-O]

Soon, the Japanese will finally be able to transform into mechas.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Pretty sure this happened in the Anime Blue Gender backstory.

 

[Disdainer of the Plebs]

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

What could possibly go wrong?

The worst that could happen is beautiful new lives are brought into the world.

(Literally, they don't want that to happen)

 

[God of Nothing]

Just decrease the work week and ban women from working at all. This is a rabbithole no one should dive into

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

These advancements ought to be done here in the US. America ought to be the world leader on reproductive technology. However, good for Japan, perhaps this will help them one day overcome their fertility crisis.

 

[Pygmy Giraffe]

NOOOoooOO!~~! You cant just create a clone army of new Japanese!, that's antisemitic! You have to import infinity niggers!!

 

[ZazietheBeast]

The better question is, what are they going to do once they do succeed in creating lab-grown people? My money is the state raises them... and then ideally set them loose on society or it can be like military brats and they get preferential positions?

Spoiler: Alita Autism

In Alita, Zalemites have their ability to breed taken out and instead, the state provides various people kids for them to raise... who also cannot breed. As such the state determines reproduction and at the same time, genetic quality. And yes, they purposely fuck with genes just to see what happens ala Brave New World.

The other interesting part is the kid having to come to terms with them being made in test tubes because the state needs people and we're currently living in a time where men-women relationships have fallen off a cliff thanks to Feminism. Gonna be rough to know you were born to serve the state.

Either way, I prefer this outcome over Nipland being turned into another Jeet and Nigger infested shithole. With the added bonus of gene-modding being developed with leaps and bounds.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

This should be a subplot in the next Gundam series

 

[Thiletonomics]

What I want to see is when the Chinese inevitably steal this technology for themselves, and the monstrosities they create with it.

 

[#58fb58]

when they transplanted the monkey head onto the other monkey that was cool.
but then they HAD to kill it and ruined something amazing.

this reminds me of that monkey head experiment. I wonder how long it would've lived?
not allowing amazing feats of medical science because of... religion or something is extremely outdated.

they find it to be inhumane or something blah blah blah so they don't let transplant headed animals stay alive and they don't allow humans to exist from petri dishes... yet.
heaven forbid we started improving future DNA by creating healthier humans instead of only using the descendants of cancer, inbreeding, obesity and STDS.

oh well. stupid planet. there are so many people on earth that the government can't even control society, the belief of being ruled makes us all sit in place without even being in bars.

did you know they supposedly made socrates kill himself by drinking poison? it's an interesting story.
anyway I'm rambling.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Either way, I prefer this outcome over Nipland being turned into another Jeet and Nigger infested shithole. With the added bonus of gene-modding being developed with leaps and bounds.

In all likelihood, they are going to do what they claim and use the embryos for research into infertility, hereditary diseases, and other diseases, destroying them in the process, or afterwards.

There would be a significant international outcry that's anti-Semitic! if anyone attempts a cloning/lab-growing program of any size. But if Japan did try to do it, it would have to be decades from now (everything could collapse before then), and I guess they would be creating lots of orphans, with some being placed with families. They may or may not have any significant enhancements, but you could assume they would be of above average intelligence. Accuracy/mutation issues associated with today's gene-editing have to be fixed.

The program would have to be at a massive scale to make any dent at all in the population pyramid. And I have a feeling they would be discriminated against, kind of like hibakusha.

Meddlers would attempt to stop this "racial purity program".

Gonna be rough to know you were born to serve the state.

I wonder if they will be more "pro-mortalist" than faggots born the natural way.

What I want to see is when the Chinese inevitably steal this technology for themselves, and the monstrosities they create with it.

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They've been laying the groundwork for over a decade. Not to mention He Jiankui creating the first 3 gene-edited human babies, laying low, and now acting like a mad scientist on X:

https://x.com/Jiankui_He/status/1948722893577486804 (archive)

 

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The other interesting part is the kid having to come to terms with them being made in test tubes because the state needs people and we're currently living in a time where men-women relationships have fallen off a cliff thanks to Feminism. Gonna be rough to know you were born to serve the state.

Is this really any worse than "mom and dad were horny 20-somethings" or even "mom and dad wanted a baby, planned properly, and had you"? Especially if you were a communal chink bugman?

 

[ZazietheBeast]

Is this really any worse than "mom and dad were horny 20-somethings" or even "mom and dad wanted a baby, planned properly, and had you"? Especially if you were a communal chink bugman?

That's slightly better than, "We had a woman knocked up because we both wanted a child but we couldn't because we're gay." And the faggots irreparably fuck up that kid's life. Especially if they're a boy. But the point I was getting at with this is that these kids will be born to no parents at all.

Part of the reason why people in general tend to be maladjusted is because they tend to lack either a proper mother or a father figure. Either one of the two is weak and pathetic or isn't there at all. (See lack of dads with niggers)

There would be a significant international outcry that's anti-Semitic! if anyone attempts a cloning/lab-growing program of any size. But if Japan did try to do it, it would have to be decades from now (everything could collapse before then), and I guess they would be creating lots of orphans, with some being placed with families. They may or may not have any significant enhancements, but you could assume they would be of above average intelligence. Accuracy/mutation issues associated with today's gene-editing have to be fixed.

The program would have to be at a massive scale to make any dent at all in the population pyramid. And I have a feeling they would be discriminated against, kind of like hibakusha.

Meddlers would attempt to stop this "racial purity program".

Considering that Heebs are behind the debanking of their media, I sort of wonder if this kind of response would tip your average Nip into thinking "Maybe the funny moustache man was right about them after all." And knowing that Heebs are lacking in the population sphere, they too would also engage in cloning just to make the ultimate Jew... that would be painted as "Very Jewish" by the pozzed media they control.

Honestly, I got mixed feelings with gene-editing. On the plus side, it can be used to unfuck people born with genetic disorders and abnormalities. On the other hand, it will be used to create various subclasses of human ala Brave New World. The perfect ones... and the slave types. Being born in a literal caste bullshit especially if you were limited on purpose is a rough existence.

 

[Rootless Cosmopolitan]

I can hear the fertility clinic owners salivating and rubbing their hands together. Right now, there’s fuck all they can do with people with no usable eggs/sperm except donors. And no one wants donor DNA right now because of near universal genetic testing (23andme, Ancestry)