April 9, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Somewhere in the northern US, drones fly over a 2,000-acre preserve, protected by a nine-foot fence built to zoo standards. It is off-limits to curious visitors, especially those with a passion for epic fantasies or mythical … Read More
April 9, 2025
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 33, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 8, 2025
(Nature) – The 50th anniversary of a landmark biosafety conference is an opportunity to ensure its spirit lives on in today’s scientists. In 2008, Nature published a six-part essay series called Meetings that Changed the World. One of our choices … Read More
April 8, 2025
(New York Times) – If the current legal landscape when it comes to embryos seems messy, it’s a result, in no small part, of the unsettled nature of what preceded it. For over a century, courts generally did not grant … Read More
April 7, 2025
(The Independent) – A quote from James after the publication of his caffeine study neatly underlines how Oster’s attitude diverges from the attitude of the medical establishment: “Certainly, there is no evidence to suggest that caffeine benefits either mother or … Read More
April 3, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Neuralink, Synchron, and Neuracle are expanding clinical trials and trying to zero in on an actual product. Implanted BCIs are electrodes put in paralyzed people’s brains so they can use imagined movements to send commands from … Read More
April 1, 2025
(Wired) – Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die. Thousands of federal employees at the US Centers … Read More
March 31, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Although it may seem like science fiction, recent technological progress has pushed this concept into the realm of plausibility. Pluripotent stem cells, one of the earliest cell types to form during development, can give rise to … Read More
March 31, 2025
(Reuters) – A tie-up between a Chinese research institute and tech company said on Monday that it aims to implant its brain chip into 13 people by the end of this year, in a move that could see it overtake … Read More
March 31, 2025
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (vol. 21, no. 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 28, 2025
(Undark) – In an era of open data, genome-wide association studies have become entangled with efforts to prove Black inferiority. Shortly after Abdellaoui announced his withdrawal, he learned that Kirkegaard was scratched from the speaker lineup, and Abdellaoui decided to … Read More
March 28, 2025
(Medscape) – A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed with brain death. During a 10-day observation period, the porcine liver produced bile and porcine albumin, maintained stable blood flow, and … Read More
March 28, 2025
Medico-Legal Journal (vol. 93, no. 1_Suppl, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 27, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – He Jiankui stands by a controversial research approach that landed him in prison as he aims to tackle Alzheimer’s disease Chinese scientist He Jiankui set off global outrage and landed in prison after he skirted ethical … Read More
March 26, 2025
Medico-Legal Journal (vol. 93, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 25, 2025
(ProPublica) – It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on much-needed research. The National Institutes of Health … Read More
March 25, 2025
(New York Times) – On June 24, 2022, the same day the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, I received a call from the fertility clinic where I’d been undergoing in vitro fertilization, informing … Read More
March 24, 2025
Developing World Bioethics (vol. 25, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 21, 2025
(Nature) – The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has expanded its cuts to science funding, terminating a growing list of research projects that now encompasses hundreds of grants funding studies on a wide range of topics — from HIV … Read More
March 14, 2025
(The Conversation) – There is much debate about whether AI can augment human creativity, but emerging data suggests that the technology can boost research and development where creativity typically plays an important role. A recent study by MIT economics doctoral … Read More
March 14, 2025
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 51, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 13, 2025
(Reuters) – Germany’s foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, two German newspapers reported on Wednesday. According to a joint report … Read More
March 13, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Some scientists say the for-profit industry’s fast growth makes it harder to police fraud and low-quality work Altogether, editors at nearly 40 journals have quit in the past decade over differences with their publishers, according to … Read More
March 12, 2025
(New York Times) – Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans. But substantial ethical questions remain. They are delivered by C-section to protect them from viruses that sows can … Read More
March 11, 2025
(ProPublica) – Employees at the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, received internal guidance last week to flag manuscripts, presentations or other communications for scrutiny if they addressed “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics. … Read More
