Bioethics News
May 21, 2024
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May 14, 2024 Survey reveals nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults support using emerging technology to screen embryos during IVF for risk of developing certain health conditions or traits that arise from more than one gene. Only about one-third of respondents ...
May 2, 2024 Genetics can be associated with one's behavior and health -- from the willingness to take risks, and how long one stays in school, to chances of developing Alzheimer's disease and breast cancer. ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Researchers offer insights into the ethical dilemmas and legal complexities surrounding brain organoids, especially those derived from human fetal tissue. Their findings advocate for thorough regulatory frameworks to ensure that scientific and ...
Feb. 26, 2024 Experts published a detailed position paper on the field of biomedical engineering which lays the foundation for a concerted worldwide effort to achieve technological and medical ...
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Mar. 20, 2024 Men and women with lower income or education levels are more likely to develop medical conditions related to alcohol abuse compared to similar individuals with a higher socioeconomic status, ...
Mar. 14, 2024 Research has found a less expensive and easier to use test to learn more about forensic touch DNA. This research has important implications for forensic investigations and being able to identify DNA ...
Feb. 26, 2024 The average researcher thinks they are better than their colleagues at following good research practice. They also think that their own research field is better than other research fields at ...
Feb. 16, 2024 A new paradigm is taking shape in the space industry as the countries and entities accessing space continue to grow and diversify. This dynamic landscape creates both competition and potential for ...
Jan. 22, 2024 Tipping elements of the Earth system should be considered global commons, researchers argue. Global commons cannot -- as they currently do -- only ...
Jan. 9, 2024 From a wartime spread of antimicrobial resistant disease in Ukraine, to superbugs in China causing 'white lung' pneumonia in children, 2023 brought no shortage of new evidence that antimicrobial ...
Jan. 8, 2024 Research is shedding light and potentially expanding options for patients living with medulloblastoma, an aggressive childhood ...
Jan. 2, 2024 New research finds that social media platforms and the metrics that reward content creators for revealing their innermost selves to fans open creators up to identity-based ...
Dec. 21, 2023 Conventional wisdom suggests that searching online to evaluate the veracity of misinformation would reduce belief in it. But a new study by a team of ...
Dec. 12, 2023 Much of the discussion around implementing artificial intelligence systems focuses on whether an AI application is 'trustworthy': Does it produce useful, reliable results, free of bias, while ...
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Apr. 23, 2024 Patients have lower rates of mortality and hospital readmissions when treated by female physicians, with female patients benefitting more than their male counterparts, new research ...
Mar. 25, 2024 The prevalence of overweight and obesity in the group of 3- and 4-year-olds in Sweden has decreased after the pandemic. The increase during the pandemic thus appears to have been temporary, according ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Researchers have called for a more considered approach when embedding ethical principles in the development and governance of AI for ...
Mar. 18, 2024 Contrary to some claims, laws that criminalize or otherwise punish drug use during pregnancy are more likely to worsen rather than improve health outcomes. The study is the first to systematically ...
Mar. 14, 2024 Employers who have introduced team-based rewards systems to foster creativity, collaboration, productivity and sales may want to look again at a system that new research shows can create an ...
Feb. 8, 2024 In a survey involving a total of 2,472 respondents, researchers asked participants about nonpolitical and political moral behavior and nonpolitical and political moral tolerance. They found people ...
Jan. 30, 2024 Asthma is more common among high school students who use cannabis, relative to those who do not and the prevalence of asthma increases with the frequency of its use among the students, according to a ...
Dec. 1, 2023 Researchers have developed a new experiment to better understand what people view as moral and immoral decisions related to driving vehicles, with the goal of collecting data to train autonomous ...
Nov. 29, 2023 A new study provides compelling evidence that music preferences can serve as a window into an individual's moral values. It has uncovered an important link between music and morality, paving the ...
Nov. 16, 2023 A team of researchers looked back at a model that predicted nuclear power would expand dramatically in order to assess the efficacy of energy policies implemented ...
Nov. 6, 2023 Addressing the shortage of women in STEM fields such as computer science is not enough to close the gender gap: Treating women more like men, especially on pay day, is more important than ...
Oct. 30, 2023 Cat hair could be the purr-fect way to catch criminals, according to ...
Oct. 25, 2023 After surveying the views expressed by 41 advocacy, medical, and transplant-focused organizations on the Uniform Determination of Death Act, a brain injury expert is calling for much-needed reforms ...
Oct. 20, 2023 In the largest-ever review of faculty retention in the United States, researchers reveal how harassment, a sense of not belonging and other factors contribute to a lack of gender diversity among ...
Oct. 20, 2023 Increasingly used in medicine, AI raises both hopes and concerns. An international task force has laid out recommendations to ensure AI medical devices help patients and avoid worsening health ...
Oct. 20, 2023 New perspective argues pursuing fair AI for healthcare requires cross-disciplinary collaboration to translate methods into real-world ...
Oct. 17, 2023 People judge members of their own circles more harshly than they judge individuals from other groups for the same transgressions, new research has ...
Oct. 1, 2023 In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a 'fairy tale,' ...
Sep. 21, 2023 People from diverse religious backgrounds in the United States view curiosity about religion as morally virtuous, according to new research. Atheists also view this curiosity as moral, although less ...
Aug. 22, 2023 It's human nature to be judgmental. But why do we place less blame on someone, or give more praise, if we find out that person had a history of suffering in childhood? In a recent study, ...
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- Harsh Workplace Climate Is Pushing Women out of Academia, Review Finds
- Keeping a Human in the Loop: Managing the Ethics of AI in Medicine
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- Policymakers Should Consider Animal Welfare in Decisions
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- Fighting Intolerance With Physics
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- Universities Love Interdisciplinary STEM Programs, but What About Students?
- Statewide Pandemic Restrictions Not Related to Psychological Distress, Researchers Find
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- COVID-19 Pandemic May Have Decreased Breastfeeding
- Increase Seen in Pediatric BMI During Pandemic, Study Finds
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- Human 'blastoids' Offer Medical Hope but Also Deep Ethical Challenges
- Ethics Not Only Allow but Demand Placebo in Some HIV Cure Trials, Paper Finds
- Law Enforcement Is Hampering Harm Reduction Programs, North Carolina Study Finds
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- Study Shows Gaps in How STEM Organizations Collect Demographic Information
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- Objection: No One Can Understand What You’re Saying
- World Trade Center Responders at Higher Risk for Blood Cancer-Associated Mutations, Study Finds
- Traffic Accidents Significantly Dropped During COVID-19 Lockdown, Study Finds
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- NFTs Offer New Method to Control Personal Health Information
- People Prefer Interacting With Female Robots in Hotels, Study Finds