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Science 6 August 2004:
Vol. 305. no. 5685, pp. 780 - 781
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101628
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Nota Bene: A Bridge Too Far?

A review by Orla Smith

His Brother's Keeper A Story from the Edge of Medicine
by Jonathan Weiner
Ecco, New York, 2004. 368 pp. $26.95, C$36.95. ISBN 0-06-001007-X.

This account of one family's efforts to save a member from the fatal neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis also illuminates the promise and pitfalls of biomedical research.

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