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Adults today may have grown up dreaming they would live to see working jet packs and robot assistants but few people imagined it would be possible to create life without reproductive cells.
Some might argue ‘moral enhancement’ medicine already exists — such as when we take medicine that alters our brain chemistry. Where do we draw a line?
Biomedical studies have traditionally used male animals and men as research subjects. That is a problem for everyone because for many diseases, there are sex differences in how they affect people.
Is it time for some scientists to turn back to pre-COVID-19 research?
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Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Director of Translational Institute of Medicine (TIME), Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Microbiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
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Professor and Chair of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical Sciences, McMaster University
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Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University
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Sessional Academic, University of Wollongong
