TABLE 6.

Cultural barriers against regenerative medicine therapy and local views on regenerative medicine therapy in Malaysia.

Religion	View towards RMT	References (s)
Islam	Sources of stem cell: adult stem cell, the procedure does not cause harm. The fetus is aborted spontaneously or miscarried	Mazri and E-fatwa, (2012)
Christian	The cloning process demands the use of human embryos; cells can be produced to make new organs to obtain the necessary DNA; some embryos must be killed	Ghazali et al. (2014)
Buddhist	Embryogenesis at 4–5 days post-fertilization, not in the category of living things	Sivaraman and Noor, (2017)
Hinduism	Three types of living things: plants, animals, and humans. The human body, including all its elements, also has a nature of its own	Sivaraman and Noor, (2017)