Jump to CommentsCLEVELAND, Ohio — Federal grant opportunities in bioethics research are few and far between. But researchers at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic have won two grants — together worth nearly $2 million — to study how underserved and minority communities view genomics research, and the bioethics of using deep brain stimulation to help Parkinson’s patients.

In her testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor made a serious contradiction of her own testimony of her involvement with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund , which was at the very least misleading. In addition, she appears to have contradicted the known facts of her involvement with the PRLDEF, based on the minutes of the Fund’s litigation committee that have been made available to the Senate Judiciary Committee.