New law enacts ban on transplantation of genome-edited fertilized eggs, penalties included

In order to regulate the birth of so-called "designer babies" whose genetic information has been rewritten, a law was passed and enacted at a plenary session of the House of Councilors on the 17th that, in principle, prohibits the use of "genome editing" to rewrite the genetic information of human fertilized eggs and other materials and then implant them into the wombs of humans or animals.