2 results for month: 02/2019


ISIR BOARD: VOTING OPEN NOW

It's nearly time to vote for new additions to the ISIR Board. To see the current roster of those serving on the Board, please click here

ISIR2019 and the MOVIES

Three Identical Strangers and the ISIR conference The movie Three Identical Strangers combines an intriguing narrative with an implicit discussion of nature and nurture. How much of the way we turn out is influenced by genes? Is it ethical to assign related children to different adoptive families for the sake of 'science'? Fortunately, there has been much progress since the early, never-published study featured in the movie. But if your interest was primed, and you want to learn about published, well-powered, ethical studies of multiple births, there will be a chance to do that this summer. Professor Tom Bouchard is unmistakably The Big Kahuna in ...