Announcement: Stem-Cell Policy

May 4, 2018

(Nature) – Research using human embryos and embryonic stem cells draws intense ethical scrutiny and places demands on scientists, funders and journals to follow the relevant regulations. As a publisher of such work, Nature and the Nature journals take this responsibility very seriously. For many years, Nature journal editors handling manuscripts on human embryo and stem-cell research have assessed the ethical oversight of the work when deciding whether to publish it. We are now formalizing and amending aspects of this publication policy.