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Who will oversee the ethical limits of human embryo research?

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  2. Harvard Law School & Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    I. Glenn Cohen

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E.Y.A. declares no competing interests. I.G.C. a member of the Illumina ethics advisory board and the Bayer Bioethics Council.

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Adashi, E.Y., Cohen, I.G. Who will oversee the ethical limits of human embryo research?. Nat Biotechnol 40, 463–464 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01274-6

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