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    An experimental and numerical study of the influence of local effects on the application of the fibre push-in test
    with Jon M. Molina-Aldareguía, M. Rodríguez, and J. LLorca
    Philosophical Magazine 91 (7-9): 1293-1307. 2011.
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    Ethical heuristics for pandemic allocation of ventilators across hospitals
    with Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson, and Julian Savulescu
    Developing World Bioethics 22 (1): 34-43. 2022.
    In response to the COVID‐19 pandemic philosophers and governments have proposed scarce resource allocation guidelines. Their purpose is to advise healthcare professionals on how to ethically allocate scarce medical resources. One challenging feature of the pandemic has been the large numbers of patients needing mechanical ventilatory support. Guidelines have paradigmatically focused on the question of what doctors should do if they have fewer ventilators than patients who need respiratory suppor…Read more
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    Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques, Scientific Tourism, and the Global Politics of Science
    with Sarah Chan and María De Jesús Medina Arellano
    Hastings Center Report 47 (5): 7-9. 2017.
    The United Kingdom is the first and so far only country to pass explicit legislation allowing for the licensed use of the new reproductive technology known as mitochondrial replacement therapy. The techniques used in this technology may prevent the transmission of mitochondrial DNA diseases, but they are controversial because they involve the manipulation of oocytes or embryos and the transfer of genetic material. Some commentators have even suggested that MRT constitutes germline genome modific…Read more
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    Mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRTs) are a new group of biotechnologies that aim to aid women whose eggs have disease-causing deleteriously mutated mitochondria to have genetically related healthy children. These techniques have also been used to aid women with poor oocyte quality and poor embryonic development, to have genetically related children. Remarkably, MRTs create humans with DNA from three sources: nuclear DNA from the intending mother and father, and mitochondrial DNA from the …Read more
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    Función de la teoría en los estudios literarios
    with César González Ochoa
    . 1982.
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    In a recent publication Tom Douglas and Katrien Devolder have proposed a new account of genetic parenthood, building on the work of Heidi Mertes. Douglas and Devolder’s account aims to solve, among other things, the question of who are the genetic parents of an individual created through somatic cell nuclear transfer (i.e. cloning): (a) the nuclear DNA provider or (b) the progenitors of the nuclear DNA provider. Such a question cannot be answered by simply appealing to the folk account of geneti…Read more