Duke University Medical Center.

PositionDonates tissue to research firm

Free to a good home: diseased human tissue left over from operations. Duke University Medical Center in Durham is tired of throwing away surgical scraps, so it's giving them, sort of, to Lexington, Mass.-based Ardais Inc. If patients agree, Duke will donate the leftovers to Ardais, which sells tissue to genetic researchers studying cancer and other diseases. In return, Duke researchers pay only Ardais' cost for the samples they use. Duke and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston are the first...

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