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    Curing Disease or Playing God: Obama and McCain on Genetics Research

    By Stuart Fox Posted on 10.14.2008 12 Comments

    Question 7: Genetics Research

    The extraordinary development of genetics over the last 20 years has resulted in both a wealth of new technologies and a wide range of ethical concerns relating to that technology. Like most scientific research, a great deal of genetics research is either run by the government directly or funded by the federal government in some fashion. As a result, the next president will struggle with genetics-related decisions that would have been unimaginable to his predecessor. Let's look at the candidates' history of genetics legislation.

    10.13.2008 at 03:41pm - Comment by hellofu

    i agree with you householdutensils religion is a problem. @boka and anyone else well if you have a problem with what the goverment is doing them you can leave and pay taxes to a diffrent goverment. don't bitch about it and say its against your religion because your infringing on my right to find the truth



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