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Science 16 April 2010:
Vol. 328 no. 5976 p. 291
DOI: 10.1126/science.328.5976.291
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U.S. Science Policy

Obama Picks Pragmatists for New Bioethics Panel

Summary

President Barack Obama named the members of his bioethics commission—headed by two university presidents—last week. The 12-member group, selected more for practical advice than for philosophizing, as the last one was prone to, will hold its first meeting in Washington, D.C., in July.