Over 800 bioethicists have signed a letter calling for the United States government to remedy its failures to assure the children it is detaining at its border are in safe and sanitary conditions
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Africa’s Science Academy Leads Push for Ethical Data UseJune 18, 2019 |
The goal is to create the continent’s first cross-disciplinary guidelines for collecting, storing and sharing data and specimens
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It barred the FDA from considering any clinical trial application “in which a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to include a heritable genetic modification.” Although a different “rider” bars the NIH from funding human germline editing—or the genetic modification of sperm, eggs, or embryos
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The draft rules mean that anyone who manipulates human genes in adults or embryos is responsible for adverse outcomes
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“Working in advocacy is a way to deal with burnout,” said Dr. Jessica Beard, a trauma surgeon at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia
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Uninsured, undocumented immigrants often go to the emergency room for treatment. Since 1986 the federal government has required that patients in the emergency room receive care, regardless of their immigration status or ability to pay
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The Privacy ProjectApril 15, 2019 |
Boundaries of privacy are in dispute, and its future is in doubt. Citizens, politicians and business leaders are asking if societies are making the wisest tradeoffs. The Times is embarking on this project to explore the technology and where it’s taking us, and to convene debate about how it can best help realize human potential
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For the past 37 years, a small research lab in Beltsville, Maryland, has been the world’s leading hub for scientists working on Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that infects more than 1 billion people globally, causing death, blindness, and birth defects
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