We May Not ‘Own’ Our Bodies. Should We?
The property law approach to ownership does not draw hard lines with respect to biological materials like tissue.

By Mary Ann Chirba, J.D., D.Sc., M.P.H. and Alice A. Noble, J.D., M.P.H. Stem cells have been an endless source of fascination and controversy since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996. This month’s announcement of a cloned human embryo from a single skin cell [1] came on the heels of Sir John B. Gurdon…