An audience with the rich and famous

• Autores: Sumit Paul-Choudhury
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3073, 2016, pág. 19
• Idioma: inglés
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  • A keynote address given by the vice president of the US--followed by a speech from Pope Franciss. Their remarks were addressed to a small crowd, by the standards of the Vatican's audience chamber but a distinguished one: pioneering researchers, visionary technologists, dignified patients--and deep-pocketed philanthropists. They were assembled for a glitzy three-day conference on regenerative medicine orchestrated by the New York-based Stem for Life Foundation and the Pontifical Council for Culture intended to catalyze funding and "reduce human suffering throughout the world." Its centerpiece, the papal audience, epitomized how the new wave of precision medicine sits at the nexus of science, society and money.