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How to navigate conflicting values in biotech research partnerships

My research partner and I have been developing longevity treatments together for three years and now that we're close to human trials we're realizing we have completely different visions of who should have access and how to prevent this from just being another thing that widens inequality. We're both avoiding the conversation because we know it might end our partnership.

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Two collaborators are discovering that their shared technical work has led them to fundamentally different moral territories they're afraid to explore together.

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