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The immoral gene: does it really exist?

Franz-Josef Zimmer1, Svenja Sethmann

  • 1Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser, Law Firm, Munich, Germany. zimmer@grunecker.de

Science and Engineering Ethics
|February 25, 2005
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Biomedical and Behavioral ResearchEuropean Patent ConventionGenetics and ReproductionLegal Approach

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