Do We Own Our Own Bodies?

The New England Journal of Medicine weighs in on an increasingly pertinent question: Does a cell-based breakthrough belong to the cell donor or the people who harvested and developed it?

It's not as simple as it seems at first thought.

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Jeff Wong's picture

I could easily see this spiraling into the land of absurdity, where the families of an organ donor are granted royalties to the earnings of an organ recipient. Successful rockers in need of liver transplants watch out!

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