A New Kind of Bioethics

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Eschewing the academic mainstream, Bush panel focuses on technology's dangers

Biography: Leon R. Kass

List: Members of the President's Council on Bioethics

Colloquy: Join an online discussion about whether President Bush's advisory panel on bioethics is being led by its chairman, Leon R. Kass, to issue reports that treat scientific innovation with suspicion and offer little in the way of useful policy recommendations.By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Before the first test-tube