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US Report Calls for Research Integrity Board

US Report Calls for Research Integrity Board

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine says that the US research community needs to do a better job of both investigating misconduct allegations and promoting ethical conduct.

These Startups Are Ditching the Uber Model and Hiring Full-Time Workers

These Startups Are Ditching the Uber Model and Hiring Full-Time Workers

A second generation of gig economy startups is abandoning a dependence on contractors in favor of full employees.

A New Form of Stem-Cell Engineering Raises Ethical Questions

A New Form of Stem-Cell Engineering Raises Ethical Questions

Researchers at Harvard Medical School said it was time to ponder a startling new prospect: synthetic embryos.

First UK Licence to Create Three-Person Baby Granted by Fertility Regulator

First UK Licence to Create Three-Person Baby Granted by Fertility Regulator

IVF technique uses DNA from three people to prevent genetic diseases being passed on, and could be offered by Newcastle clinic from this summer.

Moral Dilemma: Should We Reshape Society Because We Can?

Moral Dilemma: Should We Reshape Society Because We Can?

Traditional values will not serve us well when it comes to debating the ethics of novel technologies such as self-driving cars. We need a new moral code.

The Health Data Conundrum

The Health Data Conundrum

There's quite a paradox when it comes to our health data. Most of us still cannot readily look at it, but there’s been an epidemic of cybercriminals and thieves hacking and stealing this most personal information. By Eric Topol.

Why Researchers Should Get the Same Client Confidentiality As Doctors

Why Researchers Should Get the Same Client Confidentiality As Doctors

Promises made by researchers to participants to elicit the truth may not be worth the paper their written on if the courts can bulldoze though them.

Medicine at a Turning Point

Medicine at a Turning Point

The digital transformation of healthcare is creating major opportunities to better understand disease and effective therapies. But it also poses ethical and legal challenges. A conference organized by the Health Ethics and Policy Lab at UZH addressed some of the current issues.

COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers

COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers

COPE has produced some guidelines which set out the basic principles and standards to which all peer reviewers should adhere during the peer-review process in research publication. The aim has been to make them generic so that they can be applied across disciplines.

Attitudes to animal research in 2016

Attitudes to animal research in 2016

This Ipsos MORI report presents the findings of a 2016 survey commissioned by the Office for Life Sciences to understand current public awareness of, and attitudes towards, the use of animals in research.

NIH moves to lift moratorium on animal-human chimera research

NIH moves to lift moratorium on animal-human chimera research

Controversial studies of animals containing human stem cells could be funded if they pass agency ethics review

Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You

Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You

Institutional review boards have long governed research ethics, but do they need to evolve in the digital age?

Scientists Talk Privately About Creating a Synthetic Human Genome

Scientists Talk Privately About Creating a Synthetic Human Genome

Scientists are now contemplating the fabrication of a human genome, meaning they would use chemicals to manufacture all the DNA contained in human chromosomes.

Researchers just released profile data on 70,000 OkCupid users without permission

Researchers just released profile data on 70,000 OkCupid users without permission

A group of researchers has released a data set on nearly 70,000 users of the online dating site OkCupid. The data dump breaks the cardinal rule of social science research ethics: It took identifiable personal data without permission.

Ethics review for international data-intensive research

Ethics review for international data-intensive research

Research that analyzes large aggregate data sets, possibly including detailed clinical and genomic information of individuals, may require different ethics assessment.

Bioethics accused of doing more harm than good

Bioethics accused of doing more harm than good

[3]Opinion piece that calls for bioethics to ‘get out of the way’ prompts self-reflection among ethicists.

Artificial intelligence experts call for ban

Artificial intelligence experts call for ban

More than 1,000 artificial intelligence researchers have signed an open letter issued that calls for a ban on autonomous weapons that select and engage targets without human intervention.