Of mice, jellyfish & us

CW Admin Old June 16, 2004 - 9:42am

One of the great challenges of the twenty-first century will be our response to the combined power of new reproductive technologies and manipulation of the human gene. Two recent news stories illustrate the heart of the problem: scientists recognize they now face serious ethical problems but continue to do more or less nothing about them.

A New York Times story (December 23, 1999) reports a successful experiment in which jellyfish...

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