Bioethics News.Josephine Johnston, Director of Research at The Hastings Center delivered the keynote lecture for the Washington and Lee Mudd Center’s 2019-2020 series, “The Ethics of Technology.” Johnston’s talk is titled “The Good Parent in an Age of Gene Editing: How Novel Genetic Technologies Challenge Parental Responsibility.”
#Bioethics News: The NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing recognizes the importance of data sharing in the validation and progress of biomedical research, and thus expects researchers to develop a plan describing how their data will be managed https://t.co/f5bXOYuZbW
#Bioethics News: Researchers in China created the first pig-monkey chimeras - work that is helping them pave the way toward their "ultimate goal of human organ reconstruction in a large animal." #researchethics https://t.co/eTDUGdPnLF
#Bioethics News: Ruth Faden, founder of @bermaninstitute, discusses how Kentucky's Ultrasound Informed Consent Act violates the primary functions of informed consent by forcing information about pregnancy on unwilling patients #informedconsent https://t.co/vPinKAEv0y
A doctor refused to deliver babies to women on welfare who already had two or more children, unless they agreed to be sterilized. Edna Primus stepped in, and became a legal target herself. https://t.co/s81YDzL8LC
#Bioethics News: The new owner of GEDmatch, a genealogy website that helped police identify the Golden State killer, will continue to offer the site for searches by law enforcement, but only if they adhere to its newly restrictive terms of service https://t.co/wYhuXPwv5N
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