Draft update to national guidelines factors in additional safeguards and makes it mandatory to establish institutional panels to review stem cell research. Gene editing would be an area of "restrictive" research.

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The European pharmaceutical industry federation, EFPIA, says its member companies are not looking for shortcuts to develop and validate digital biomarkers, but want help from regulators to create the right evidence.