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 clash between African health leaders and the Trump administration over a controversial vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau has ...

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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 ...

"Understanding human nature empowers us," says Texas Lawyer columnist Michael P. Maslanka. "Here, then, are five aspects of human nature to know and to apply towards a more ethical practice." Lawyers ...

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 ...

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, ...

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