Tag: Research ethics
A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what...
Ted Powers, University of California, Davis
An antibiotic discovered on Easter Island in 1964 sparked a billion-dollar pharmaceutical success...
Science requires ethical oversight – without federal dollars, society’s health and safety...
Christine Coughlin, Wake Forest University and Nancy M. P. King, Wake Forest University
As the Trump administration continues to...
Promising assisted reproductive technologies come with ethical, legal and social challenges...
Keith Latham, Michigan State University and Mary Faith Marshall, University of Virginia
Assisted reproductive technologies are medical procedures that...
You shed DNA everywhere you go – trace samples in the...
Jenny Whilde, University of Florida and Jessica Alice Farrell, University of Florida
Human DNA can be sequenced from small...
What is ethical animal research? A scientist and veterinarian explain
Lana Ruvolo Grasser, National Institutes of Health and Rachelle Stammen, Emory University
A proposed measure in Switzerland would have...
Uncovering the genetic basis of mental illness requires data and tools...
Hailiang Huang, Harvard University
Mental illness is a growing public health problem. In 2019, an estimated 1 in 8...
With federal funding for science on the decline, what’s the role...
David R. Johnson, University of Nevada, Reno
What is the place of a profit motive in the production of knowledge at public universities?
The Trump administration’s...
How national security gave birth to bioethics
Jonathan D Moreno, University of Pennsylvania
Starting near the end of World War II and continuing until the 1970s, the US government sponsored radiation experiments...
EXPLORING NATURE
How new foreign worker visa fees might worsen doctor shortages in...
Patrick Aguilar, Washington University in St. Louis
There are almost 1.1 million licensed physicians in the United States. That...
