‘We’re the telescope looking forward’: Medical ethicists ask tough questions as part of $66 million research project

‘We’re the telescope looking forward’: Medical ethicists ask tough questions as part of $66 million research project 
CU Department of Medicine, by Mark Harden; 4/5/24 
In the original “Jurassic Park” movie, after the process of bringing dinosaurs back to life is explained to a team of consultants, one of them voices a warning: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” University of Colorado Department of Medicine faculty members will be asking the “should” question years before there’s an answer to “could.” They’ve joined in a nationwide study of whether tiny, battery-powered electric devices and genetic material, swallowed in capsule form, could one day replace surgery or injections as treatments for metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesity.