Mary Rorty, clinical associate professor at the Stanford University Medical Center and faculty associate at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics Designer babies, genetic perfectionism, the ...

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The owner of a rescued lab dog considers if insights gleaned through animal research are enough to justify the practice.

Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.

Ethics in STEM is a research area that focuses on the critical ethical dimensions of our designed and engineered world. We seek to challenge various cultural assumptions about what ethics is and how ...

Much published science and the "knowledge" resulting from it is likely wrong and sends researchers chasing false leads. Without research integrity, we don’t know what we know, so it is incumbent on ...

BEIJING — First it was a proposal to transplant a head to a new body. Then it was the world’s first cloned primates. Now it is genetically edited babies. Those recent scientific announcements, ...

In today's business environment, innovation is crucial for companies to stay competitive, succeed and drive economic growth. Scientific research is a formidable driving force behind business ...