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Science 15 February 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5558, pp. 1210 - 1211
DOI: 10.1126/science.295.5558.1210
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BIOMEDICAL ETHICS:
Study of Brain Dead Sparks Debate

Jennifer Couzin

In the February issue of Nature Medicine, researchers report infusing millions of peptides into brain-dead and near-death patients to determine which ones end up in specific tissues. The work has yielded a wealth of data that could not have been obtained otherwise. Although controversial, some ethicists believe that with stringent informed consent procedures, such studies are ethically sound.

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