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Ali Brivanlou slides open a glass door at the Rockefeller University in New York to show off his latest experiments probing the mysteries of the human embryo. "As you can see, all my lab is glass — ...

The realm of scientific and psychological experimentation often dances on the edge of ethics and legality. Many experiments conducted in the past, once shrouded in secrecy, have been declassified, ...

In this week's "It's Debatable" segment, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate on the question: Should ethical/legal restrictions on human testing be lifted to expedite the development of new ...

The application of ethics in human subjects research can be a difficult process. This lecture will present the principles of the Nuremberg Code and Belmont Report. The application of these principles ...

OXFORD – University of Mississippi law professor Michelle Hanlon co-authored an article published recently in the journal Science that offers best practices for human research in space. Each time ...

Unlike humans or animals, artificial intelligences can be designed to care about anything. Their preferences, aversions, and ...

This course explores the history of the scientific study of the human body from ancient Greece and Rome to the present. It examines the ways in which different communities sought to study, control, ...

A multidisciplinary committee of experts studied the scientific underpinnings of human gene-editing technologies, their potential use in biomedical research and medicine -- including human germline ...