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Not Just a Pretty Face: Legal and Ethical Issues in Regenerative Nanomedicine Human Enhancement and Nanotechnology, Western Michigan University, March 28-29, 2009 Linda MacDonald Glenn, Albany Medical Center Jeanann S. Boyce, Montgomery College

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Reverse Engineering the Brain : the ultimate source of the templates of intelligence

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