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Nature 421, 573 (6 February 2003) | doi:10.1038/421573a

Open Innovation Challenges

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Time for bioethics and business to start talking

Rahul K. Dhanda1

  1. Bioethics Program, Interleukin Genetics, 135 Beaver Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02452, USA

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Commerce and idealism need not be mutually exclusive.

The cultural rift between bioethicists and biotechnologists has resulted in a situation where each sees the other as single-minded. It is all too easy for bioethicists to assume that businesses are entirely driven by the profit motive, with science merely a slave to this machine.