The patent office just upheld a key embryonic stem cell patent, the latest turn in a long fight over some intellectual property that's central to the whole field.
But, generally speaking, at abroad the research of the intellectual capital is still an emerging field, and China is still in the embryonic stage of "concept-introducing, consciousness-raising".
More than 80 years have passed since the German scientist Hans Spemann conducted his famous experiment that laid the foundations for the field of embryonic development.