Preventing the transmission of inherited genetic diseases, and increasing food production rates in farmed animals are two potential applications of genome editing technologies that require u... Read more
An emotion detector which, potentially, can tell whether a person really finds you attractive on a first date has been created by researchers at Lancaster University. The inspiration for the... Read more
Michael Madary and Thomas Metzinger summarize problems and offer recommendations for the future of VR Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany have prepared a li... Read more
Imagine you are in charge of the switch on a trolley track. The express is due any minute; but as you glance down the line you see a school bus, filled with children, stalled at the level cr... Read more
Scientists may be years away from successfully emulating a human or animal brain for research purposes, but the significant – and perhaps unexpected – ethical challenges such work presents h... Read more
An end to mascara testing on animals could be in sight thanks to tiny organisms nicknamed ‘slipper’ and ‘eyelash’. Mascara is a mild irritant, and rabbits have, historically, been used to te... Read more
People with conditions such as heart disease or Parkinson’s could benefit from tissue grown with their own DNA Lorraine Barnes suffered a heart attack in 2005 and has lived with the co... Read more
Johns Hopkins bioethicists lead a call to reform the ethical foundation of the changing American healthcare system In what they acknowledge as a seismic shift in the ethical foundation of me... Read more
Emerging ethical dilemmas and policy issues in science and technology for 2013 As a new year approaches, the University of Notre Dame’s John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Valu... Read more
He argues that technological change is producing a growing intolerance for the routine slaughter of earlier wars. FOR streamlined, unmanned aircraft, drones carry a lot of baggage these days... Read more
Scientists Initiate Action Plan to Advance Cultured Meat Late last week, an international group of scientists took a step closer to their goal to produce cultured meat. They agreed on import... Read more