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Legal and ethical questions about human embryonic stem cell research still unanswered

Published in Cardiovascular Device Liability Week, April 2nd, 2006

"As my university gears up for human embryonic stem cell research," says Stanford law professor Henry Greely in an essay for PLoS Medicine , "It finds that a host of ethical and legal questions still need to be answered."

Some of these questions, says Greely, focus on ethical issues related to donors. For example, given the long life span of human embryonic stem cell lines, and their likely use in clinical practice, will it really be possible to promise donors anonymity' "It seems highly likely," says Greely, "that the Food and Drug Administration will want as much information as possible about the donor's health, not only with regard to pathogens that may infect...

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