A5025828500- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- BRCA gene mutations in cancer
- Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Biotechnology and Related Fields
- Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Ethics in medical practice
- Free Will and Agency
- Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
- Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Genetically Modified Organisms Research
- Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Science, Research, and Medicine
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Intellectual Property and Patents
Stanford University
2015-2024
Stanford Medicine
2013-2022
American Academy of Pediatrics
2020
Center for Law and Social Policy
2018-2019
Baylor College of Medicine
2019
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2019
Palo Alto University
2014-2019
Edelman (United Kingdom)
2012
Ethics and Public Policy Center
2008-2011
Harvard University
2008
A framework for open discourse on the use of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to manipulate human genome is urgently needed
November 2020 marked 2 y since the launch of Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), which aims to sequence all known eukaryotic species in a 10-y timeframe. Since then, significant progress has been made across aspects EBP roadmap, as outlined 2018 article describing project’s goals, strategies, and challenges (1). The phase ended clock started on reaching EBP’s major milestones. This Special Feature explores many facets EBP, including review progress, description scientific exemplar projects,...
The world was shocked in Nov. 25, 2018 by the revelation that He Jiankui had used clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats ('CRISPR') to edit embryos-two of which had, sometime October, become living babies. This article is an effort provide some deep context for affair and begin analyzing it. It focuses on He's experiment, without delving into broader ethical issues around 'human germline genome editing' abstract. begins carefully defining editing'. then describes little we...
Digital phenotyping uses smartphone and wearable signals to measure cognition, mood, behavior. This promising new approach has been developed as an objective, passive assessment tool for the diagnosis treatment of mental illness. is currently used with informed consent in research studies but expected expand broader healthcare direct-to-consumer applications. could involve collection massive amounts individual data potential creation categories health risk data. Because existing ethical...
“Illustration” or “map” are among the most frequently used words for translating Chinese character tu , a graphic representation of any phenomenon that can be pictured in life and society, whether traditional China elsewhere. Investigations early role culture first set out to answer questions about who produced background its originator, originator's purpose. How were pictures conceptualized? Interpreted? In examining scholars stressed relational aspect shu (writing) both these questions, as...
A wealth of neuroscientific evidence indicates that our brains respond differently to previously encountered than novel stimuli. There has been an upswell interest in the prospect functional MRI (fMRI), when coupled with multivariate data analysis techniques, might allow presence or absence individual memories be detected from brain activity patterns. This could have profound implications for forensic investigations and legal proceedings, thus merits limitations such approach are critical...
Objective To investigate pregnant women's level of future interest in noninvasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) and what factors might affect expected uptake this testing. Method Written questionnaires were administered to women their third trimester. Results One hundred fourteen returned the questionnaire (80.9% response rate). Of these, 71.9% reported NIPD, 22.7% ambivalent, 5.4% uninterested. Safety fetus was single most important factor 75% decisions. Factors associated with increased NIPD...
Although new technologies may make it possible to bring extinct species back life, there are ethical, legal, and social ramifications be addressed
Human brain research is moving into a dilemma. The best way to understand how the human works study living brains in beings, but ethical and legal standards make it difficult do powerful with actual beings. So neuroscientists have developed four types of surrogates for bodies: genetically edited non-human animals, human/non-human chimeras, neural organoids, ex vivo tissues. These new rapidly improving models offer hope understanding function better. If we our "too good," they may themselves...
Human cerebral organoids (HCOs) are model systems that enable researchers to investigate the human brain in ways had previously been impossible. The emergence of HCOs was accompanied by both expert and layperson discussions concerning possibility these novel entities developing sentience or consciousness. Such concerns reflected deliberations about how handle regulate their use. This perspective article resulted from an international interdisciplinary research retreat "Ethical, Legal Social...