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Researchers are key to Canada’s capacity to create a high-tech economy, build the biomedical sector and seed entrepreneurial activity, but they can’t do it without research funding.
Adults today may have grown up dreaming they would live to see working jet packs and robot assistants but few people imagined it would be possible to create life without reproductive cells.
Some might argue ‘moral enhancement’ medicine already exists — such as when we take medicine that alters our brain chemistry. Where do we draw a line?
Biomedical studies have traditionally used male animals and men as research subjects. That is a problem for everyone because for many diseases, there are sex differences in how they affect people.
Is it time for some scientists to turn back to pre-COVID-19 research?
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Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics, National University of Singapore; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University
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Director of Translational Institute of Medicine (TIME), Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor and Chair of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical Sciences, McMaster University
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Professor of Microbiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
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Associate lecturer, University of Wollongong
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Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
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Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
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