October 27, 2005

Ethics and research Leon Kass, chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005, kicked off a new series of discussions about the ethics of stem cell and other research at Harvard on Thursday (Oct. 20). Kass said the bitterness of the battle over ethics has left the United States without a national policy. (Staff photo Justin Ide/Harvard News Office) Full story

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