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By Robert D. Truog, MD and Melissa J. Lopes, JD The Harvard Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight (the “ESCRO”) Committee, an ethics oversight committee charged with reviewing research protocols involving human embryos, human embryonic stem cells, and…
By Melissa Lopes Paul Appelbaum’s keynote address was both reflective and forward-looking in nature. He reflected back on his late ‘80s groundbreaking research introducing the concept of “therapeutic misconception” and challenged the audience to apply the…
By Melissa Lopes The DISCUSS project is designed to develop consensus recommendations for the use of stored biospecimens (originally consented for research) to: derive iPSC lines and deposit the derived lines in a cell bank…
