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Mathias reported substantial protocol violations to Plunket and told Dr. Harold Brooks, dean of the university's College of Medicine in Tulsa, as well. They finally agreed to hire an outside consulting firm to audit the experiment. The finding: deficiencies "so severe that it is beyond the scope of this...
That said, everyone involved in an experiment has the duty to put the subjects' interests first. Says Duke's Sugarman: "The moral responsibility for the protection of patients lies with the investigator, the sponsors, the people who carry out the research: nurses, assistants, technicians, research pharmacists. You can't just...
“I think this is a legitimate experiment,” says another.
Is in vitro fertilization to be applauded as a humanizing technique, allowing some infertile couples the joy of procreation? Or is it dehumanizing, a step that is to be condemned because it puts the moment of creation outside the body into a mechanical environment? To some thinkers, the Oldham experiment...
for a successful birth—should be banned on safety grounds. The state of current research makes the procedure likely to produce a deformed or otherwise diseased clone, if it even survives. Since researchers in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep in 1997, they have discovered severe arthritis in her...