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Regulate research at the animal–human interface

The time is right, says Martin Bobrow, to improve the governance of research involving animals that contain human genetic or cellular material.

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Bobrow, M. Regulate research at the animal–human interface. Nature 475, 448 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/475448a

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  1. To my scientific point of view this ethics only ensure the dominance of the human in the world. So it avoid the outcome of intelligent non-human primates.

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