Comment

For the good of the state

Gregory A Petsko

Author Affiliations

Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA

Genome Biology 2003, 4:121 doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-12-121

Published: 27 November 2003

Recent advances in biology and medicine, from the sequence of the human genome to the cloning of mammals have made many lay people profoundly uneasy about the future of humanity.