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Published online 22 October 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/4551021a
Initiative waives human life in favour of life on humans
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The headline sounds sinister, or at least unethical. How is it that such a helpful study "waives human life" ? One is left to guess that the study would not set aside concerns about, or relinquish claims to human life, but help affirm it, in seeking knowledge about its processes. / Donivan Besssinger