Ethics in genetic research takes center stage in Cleveland, Ohio

This is really an encouraging development. So much hoopla and fighting and backstabbing going on about stem cell and in vitro and on and on, it's a relief at last to see that the powers that be are putting some money where the arguments are.

Cleveland's Case School of Medicine will be "one of four national centers of excellence created with NIH funding in the United States to study bioethical issues." The National Institutes of Health do not hand out money lightly so this is a real honor to CWRU and to the other participants of the coalition (including the Cleveland Clinic).

If the northeast Ohio region were looking for any further proof of its viability as a center for energizing biomedical progress, this high honor from the highest powers in the United States medical world should be all it--and potential investors--need.