June 17, 2019
(Science) – In a bold rejection of the widespread sentiment—and regulations in many countries—that no one should alter the genome of a human embryo and transfer it to a woman, Russian geneticist Denis Rebrikov last week went public with his … Read More
June 17, 2019
(Star Tribune) – Medical staff at HCMC continued to sedate people with ketamine and collect data for a study for months after the hospital’s leadership told elected officials they had voluntarily halted the research in response to questions over ethics … Read More
June 17, 2019
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 44, no. 12, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Ethics Rounds: Affecting Ethics Quality at All Organisational Levels” by Dagmar Schmitz et al. “How to Read an Ethics Paper” by Melanie Jansen … Read More
June 14, 2019
(Bloomberg) – The dossier on cancer researcher Xifeng Wu was thick with intrigue, if hardly the stuff of a spy thriller. It contained findings that she’d improperly shared confidential information and accepted a half-dozen advisory roles at medical institutions in … Read More
June 14, 2019
(NPR) – “The exclusion of people with disabilities from the biomedical workforce undermines the goal of achieving true diversity and is a missed opportunity for science and medicine,” she wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine at the end … Read More
June 14, 2019
(MIT Technology Review) – A startup he cofounded, eGenesis, had made news for its ambitious plans to use CRISPR gene-editing technology to modify pigs so their organs could be safely transplanted into humans without being rejected. That could solve a … Read More
June 13, 2019
(The New York Times) – Two patients contracted severe infections, and one of them died, from fecal transplants that contained drug-resistant bacteria, the Food and Drug Administration reported on Thursday. As a result, the agency is halting a number of … Read More
June 12, 2019
(Nature) – A Russian scientist says he is planning to produce gene-edited babies, an act that would make him only the second person known to have done this. It would also fly in the face of the scientific consensus that … Read More
June 11, 2019
(The Guardian) – A row has broken out among scientists over the decision by one of the world’s leading genetics laboratories – the Sanger Institute in Cambridgeshire – to close its animal breeding facility. The Wellcome Trust, which runs the … Read More
June 5, 2019
(Reuters) – The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Wednesday it would cancel its research contract involving human fetal tissue from elective abortions with the University of California. The decision follows an audit of all HHS research … Read More
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