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Hank GreelyHank Greely: The law professor at Stanford heads a group of ethicists who are keeping track of Dr. Irving Weissman's work transferring human brain cells to mice.

Stuart Newman: The professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College tried to patent a human-ape chimera as a way to draw attention to the practice of blending genes.

Eugene Redmond: The professor of psychiatry and neurosurgery at Yale University School of Medicine has been working on adding human nerve cells into monkeys as part of the search for a cure for Parkinson's disease.

Irving Weissman: The Stanford University professor and cofounder of the biotech company StemCells Inc. is working on inserting human nerve cells into mice to investigate how human brain cancers form.

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