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Published online 16 April 2008 | 452, 796 (2008) | doi:10.1038/452796a
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Germany eases ban on embryonic stem-cell lines
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A human Zygote is a human being in phase of growth, equal in dignity to adult mankind and different to any other human being. Dismantling it into lines to be used as experiment subjects or spare parts for diseased is a negation of the principles of Helsinki declaration that does not allow experiments in subjects devoided of autonomy. The perfect approach to reproductive medicine would be not to allow generation of Zygotes when there is no compromise of implanting it to full term development, other things sound like Nazi science. Regards JGA