#Bioethics News: Synthetic embryos made from stem cells may allow researchers to study the elusive first stages of human development. However, there still exists uncertainty over the funding of these embryo-like cells #researchethics https://t.co/tXveLzwIq4

#Bioethics News: Is it okay to give babies an investigational drug outside of a clinical trial? Ethics experts weigh in here - https://t.co/0frDTUDMOx

"SUPPORT does illustrate... that neither physician-researchers nor IRBs are particularly good at treating human dignity as a serious concern"

Annas & Annas, responding to Macklin & Natanson's TA about misrepresenting "usual care": https://t.co/22G5OMxomw

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#Bioethics News: Researchers in Mexico conducted a controversial study that involved artificially inseminating women and then flushing the embryos from their bodies - an approach that bioethicists say "uses a woman's body as a petri dish." #researchethics https://t.co/CUCgKd0ipi

"The risks of trial participation for an individual are logically measured against what an individual’s care trajectory would have been had they pursued care outside of a trial. Randomization potentially abrogates that care trajectory."

https://t.co/VjyiFi99VL

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