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Johannes Kögel1, Georg Marckmann1
1Institute of Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
EMBO Reports
|August 13, 2020
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A citizen's conference on xenotransplantation delivers a cautious 'Yes, but…' endorsement. It also shows how additional knowledge and debate shifted peoples' opinion on this technology.
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