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- New in Braingenethics: What Role Should Genetic Testing Play in Psychiatric Care?
Posted on November 21, 2018
Several DNA tests claim to predict how well particular psychiatric medications are likely to work for individual patients with depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. And 23andMe just received approval to... - Control and Responsible Innovation of Artificial Intelligence
Posted on November 20, 2018
Artificial intelligence and robotics are beginning to transform nearly every sector and facet of modern life. While the benefits and expected benefits could be vast, there are also concerns about... - Event: Why Doping Matters in Sports
Posted on November 6, 2018
What do we really care about in sport, and how does the reckless use of biomedical enhancements undermine those values? Come to Why Doping Matters in Sports, a lecture by Hastings... - Bioethics Workshop for Secondary School Teachers Examines the Ethics of Human Gene Editing
Posted on October 30, 2018
Today’s young people will inevitably grapple with decisions about emerging biotechnologies, such as whether new gene editing technologies should be used to choose the traits of their children or enhance... - Dan W. Brock Named 2018 Beecher Award Recipient
Posted on October 22, 2018
Dan W. Brock has been named the recipient of The Hastings Center’s 2018 Henry Knowles Beecher Award. Throughout his career, Dr. Brock, the Francis Glessner Lee Emeritus Professor of Medical... - New Project: Could Human Cells “Humanize” Research Animals?
Posted on October 10, 2018
And what does “humanize” even mean? Those are among the questions being explored in a new Hastings Center project, funded by the National Institutes of Health, on the ethical oversight...
