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The Ethics Behind Experimenting With Bodies Of The Brain-Dead

The Ethics Behind Experimenting With Bodies Of The Brain-Dead
A team at the University of Maryland School of Medicine conducts surgery on January 7, 2022 to give a patient a gene-edited pig heart, marking the first time a gene-edited pig has been used as an organ donor. University Of Maryland School Of Medicine/ZUMA Press Wire Service

For the scientist who performs medicial research on the recently deceased, there are few regulatory or ethical guardrails.

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