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Posts tagged: Hank Greely

The chair’s request: A single good idea

Written by John Donnelly on February 28, 2011 — Leave a Comment

At the end of a long meeting today, Dr. Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, had one question for a group of experts on the ethics of genetics testing and neuro-imaging: “What could we most productively take on as a commission? […]

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Ethics of prenatal genetic tests

Written by John Donnelly on February 28, 2011 — Leave a Comment

What could be an explosive ethical issue in genetic testing in the years ahead? One possibility: prenatal genetic testing. Hank Greely, the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, told the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today that just 1 to 2 percent of pregnancies now involve […]

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