After the Nuremberg war-crimes trials highlighted horrific Nazi experiments on prisoners, the Nuremberg ethics code laid down “never again” guidelines regarding research on human subjects. Utilitarian scientists in the Geron Corporation are once again pushing those ethical boundaries, using human patients as guinea pigs in their quest for lucrative patents from embryo-destructive stem-cell research (“Stem-cell treatment tested on patient,” Tuesday, Nation). Read more …
October 29, 2010