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Science requires ethical oversight – without federal dollars, society’s health and safety are at risk

  • Written by Christine Coughlin, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University
Science requires ethical oversight – without federal dollars, society’s health and safety are at riskBrain organoids, pictured here, raise both many medical possibilities and ethical questions.NIAID/Flickr, CC BY-SA

As the Trump administration continues to make significant cutsto NIH budgetsand personnel and to freeze billions of dollars of funding to major research universities – citing ideological concerns – there’s more being...

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