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Responses and Dialogue: Response to “Germ-Line Therapy to Cure Mitochondrial Disease: Protocol and Ethics of In Vitro Ovum Nuclear Transplantation” by Donald S. Rubenstein, David C. Thomasma, Eric A. Schon, and Michael J. Zinaman (CQ Vol 4, No 3.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Matthew D. Bacchetta
Affiliation:
A member of the class of 1998, Cornell University Medical College, New York.
Gerd Richter
Affiliation:
A fellow in the Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia, Department of Internal Medicine, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany.

Abstract

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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