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Nature 389, 767 (23 October 1997) | doi:10.1038/39662

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Despite cultural differences, countries face common challenges in confronting new biomedical advances.

It is always a comfort when two individuals who have viewed each other sceptically, perhaps even disdainfully, from a distance find that, on closer acquaintance, they have more in common than they realized. Such was the experience in Paris last week at a meeting organized jointly by Nature and the British Council on the handling of bioethics issues in Britain and France.