December 13, 2024
(NPR) – “The for-profit sector is focusing on conditions, such as sickle cell disease, such as cancer, which are commercially viable because there are just enough people with them,” Urnov says. The problem is, “that leaves 99.5% of folks outside … Read More
December 10, 2024
(Undark) – New dialogues are emerging about what comes next in biology, 25 years after completion of a draft of the human genome. In today’s world, post-genomic is built on two important ideas: that, as previously mentioned, doing genomics is … Read More
December 10, 2024
(Gizmodo) – While the exact fate of the misplaced samples is still unknown, they likely pose no danger to the public, government officials have said. A research facility in Australia is in hot water over losing track of its viruses. … Read More
December 9, 2024
Journal of Medical Humanities (vol. 45, no 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 6, 2024
(Reuters via U.S. News & World Report) – An animal testing laboratory at Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain technology company was found to have “objectionable conditions or practices” by the Food and Drug Administration, which cited the company and urged it … Read More
December 6, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – The UK is seen as a global leader in regulating reproductive technologies. Some worry that onerous paperwork is causing embryos to be wasted. IVF is a success story for embryo research. But today, valuable embryos that … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Live Science) – Dozens of people in the United States have caught bird flu from animals this year, but there’s no evidence that the viral disease has spread from one person to another. However, a single mutation in the virus … Read More
December 6, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 8, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 4, 2024
(UPI via MSN) – In 2006, Wolfgang Jäger was in his 30s when a skiing accident left the young Austrian wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord injury. Fast-forward to today, where an innovative deep-brain stimulation technique is helping the 54-year-old Jäger … Read More
November 27, 2024
(Medscape) – About a third of people eligible for glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) medications for weight loss via the products’ labels would have been excluded from the clinical trials that supported their safety and effectiveness, thereby creating … Read More
November 27, 2024
(Nature) – By changing how contracts are done, institutions can move away from exploitative research practices. Historically, the people and institutions that carry out research related to Indigenous peoples have assumed that they own those data — they can share … Read More
November 27, 2024
(Associated Press) – The family placed flowers by a pair of weathered cowboy boots, as people quietly gathered for the memorial of the soft-spoken tribal chairman who mentored teens in the boxing ring and teased his grandkids on tractor rides. … Read More
November 26, 2024
(New Scientist) – Reperfusion technologies that can reanimate human brains are raising the possibility that death could be a reversible condition, even hours after a cardiac arrest That was when something incredible happened. The cortex turned from grey to pink. … Read More
November 26, 2024
(Wired) – Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, announced on Tuesday that it is launching a study to test its implant for a new use: allowing a person to control a robotic arm using just their thoughts. “We’re excited to … Read More
November 22, 2024
(CNN) – More than 3,600 researchers from over 100 countries have analyzed more than 100 million cells from over 10,000 people, according to the latest update from an ambitious project launched in 2016 to produce an atlas of every single … Read More
November 21, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – A two-hour interview is enough to accurately capture your values and preferences, according to new research from Stanford and Google DeepMind. Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice … Read More
November 18, 2024
(The Conversation) – Halassy is a success story of self-experimentation in medicine. She joins other examples, like Barry Marshall, who won the 2005 Noble prize in medicine following his work ingesting the Helicobacter bacterium to prove its role in gastritis … Read More
November 18, 2024
(NBC News) – The University of North Texas Health Science Center turned to alkaline hydrolysis to save money on cremations of human remains, budget documents show. State regulators have ordered a Texas medical school to immediately halt its practice of … Read More
November 15, 2024
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include:
November 14, 2024
(Gizmodo) – Doctors say that Richard Slayman’s body did not reject a pig kidney modified to become more compatible with human biology. A historic medical accomplishment that ended in tragedy may yet have a silver lining. Doctors say that Richard … Read More
November 14, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Intermittent fasting probably isn’t the health hack you hoped it would be. More studies suggest the tactic can help you lose weight, but likely isn’t a silver bullet for other health improvements like lowering your inflammation … Read More
November 14, 2024
(Axios) – Life sciences companies are quickly integrating artificial intelligence into their work, but guardrails for using the technology are lagging, according to a survey from law firm Arnold & Porter. The big picture: 75% of the 100 senior life … Read More
November 13, 2024
(The Scientist) – Researchers used artificial intelligence in large genomics studies to fill in gaps in patient information and improve predictions, but new research uncovers false positives and misleading correlations. With AI-assisted GWAS [genome-wide association studies], Lu and his colleagues … Read More
November 11, 2024
(Wired) – After a Montana man illegally cloned and bred an endangered giant sheep species, government agencies must now contend with the illicit offspring. In September, a man from Montana was sentenced to six months in prison after he trafficked … Read More
November 11, 2024
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 32, no. 10, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
