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Stanford Report, April 28, 2004 | |
ABC World News Tonight, San Jose Mercury News and San
Francisco Chronicle. An unusual mouse produced in Japan
from the genes of two females caused a flurry of media attention
last week. David Magnus, PhD, co-director of the Stanford Center
for Biomedical Ethics, provided comment on this phenomenon for ABC
World News Tonight and the Chron. He also co-wrote an
op-ed for the Merc with bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the
University of Pennsylvania, cautioning that it's a big leap from
mice to humans and that it's not likely human infants will be
produced in this fashion anytime soon. New York Times, CNN.com, CBSNews.com and
others. In 1972, Stanley Cohen, MD, the Kwoh-Ting Li
Professor, had a prophetic meeting with Herbert Boyer, then a
biochemist at UCSF, at a conference in Hawaii. That meeting spawned
the biotechnology revolution and earned the two scientists yet
another prize last week -- the 2004 Albany Medical Center Prize in
Medicine, the largest medical prize after the Nobel Prize. (See p.
6.) The Times and CNN.com were just a few of the many
media outlets around the country that reported news of the
honor.
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