Two conservation scholars break down what de-extinction looks like – and the debate over whether it could do any good.
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Early adopters have started using ChatGPT to assist with mundane tasks like writing sick certificates and patient letters.
Looking at the underlying philosophical and moral questions involved in abortion debates can help explain why it’s such an intensely divisive issue.
Scientific and public uproar resulted when the Chinese scientist announced the births of the first human babies with heritable edits to their genes. A new documentary reexamines the saga.
From warfare to entertainment and VR, brain-computer interface development has extended beyond prosthetics for patients with disabilities. Missing is full ethical consideration of the consequences.
A new biotech partnership could bring the first baby thylacine to life within 10 years. But de-extinction is controversial – should we even be doing this?
In a huge milestone, researchers have grown a mouse embryo entirely from stem cells. Could humans be next?
China’s industrial-scale organ trafficking practice has been executing prisoners of conscience and using their organs for transplantation for decades. This is known as forced organ harvesting.
Both Macron and Madonna have expressed concerns about genetic privacy. As DNA collection and sequencing becomes increasingly commonplace, what may seem paranoid may instead be prescient.
The immortal cancer cells of Henrietta Lacks revolutionized the fields of science, medicine and bioethics. And they still survive today, more than 70 years after her death.
The definition of personhood is a key and contested philosophical issue that has made legalized abortion such a longstanding controversy.
We have moved beyond burning witches and lynching wrong-doers. So we should also stop shaming unvaccinated people. There are better ways to change behaviour.
Should countries require COVID-19 vaccination for entry while vaccines remain globally scarce?
The CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine provider agreement prohibits health care professionals from administering the vaccines in people for whom they are not yet authorized or approved. But this departs from longstanding norms.
Emotive claims, like COVID vaccination being unethical or coercive, are more likely to be shared on social media. But we can fight back.
It’s unvaccinated people, not the vaccinated, who are most at risk when unvaccinated people are allowed in shops.
Scientists debate the medical benefits of booster shots. But there’s another aspect to consider: bioethics.
While the prospect of reviving extinct species has long been discussed, advances in genome editing have now brought such dreams close to reality.
At its core, the constitution holds a moral vision of people as autonomous moral agents, capable of rationally forming their own opinions.
Ethically, vaccine mandates are justifiable on multiple levels, based on the common good and a public health ethics framework.
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor in Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore
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University Research Professor, Philosophy, Dalhousie University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Bioethicist, University of Cincinnati
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UMass Lowell
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Honorary Professor Faculty of Health and Medical Science, Univeristy of Sydney; Senior Researcher Sydney Institue for Infectious Disease, University of Sydney., University of Sydney
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Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Professor, Medical Ethics, Bond University
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Professor of Bioethics, Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University, Monash University
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Infectious Disease Ethics Fellow, Ethox & Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, Univeristy of Oxford. Adjunct, Monash University
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Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
