The IBC is entrusted with addressing the main ethical issues related to the progress of medicine, life sciences and associated technologies.

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Life sciences include such areas as biology, medicine, and ecology which study living organisms.

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Originally, Aventis was expected to be a so-called "life sciences" company, basing its sales on both medicine and agricultural science.

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He has a joint appointment in the College of Medicine and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and serves as Director of the Mechanisms of Emotion, Social Relationships and Health in the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences.

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