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• BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY

  Last week, the Trump Administration proposed a new rule that would “require DNA-sample collection from individuals who are arrested, facing charges, or convicted, and from non-United States persons who are detained under the authority of the United States.” Collecting DNA of people detained under the Department of Homeland Security is not permitted under U.S. law. The proposed rule aims to change that.

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  Immigrant DNA Collection: Fighting Crime or Moral Panic

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• The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability and Technology is a series of six public events in New York City during 2019 to 2021 that will explore how technologies can be used to promote or thwart meaningful, flourishing lives. Because people with disabilities are especially proficient at living in a world not built for them,… Read more

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  Public Events Series: The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability and Technology

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• HASTINGS CENTER NEWS

  Ruth Faden, PhD, MPH, founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Bioethics, was named the recipient of The Hastings Center’s 2019 Henry Knowles Beecher Award for lifetime achievement in bioethics.

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  Hastings Center Recognizes Ruth Faden for Lifetime Achievement in Bioethics

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  The Hastings Center is pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural David Roscoe Award for an Early-Career Essay on Science, Ethics, and Society. “Recruitment and Trial-Finding Apps: Time for Rules of the Road,” by Stephanie R. Morain and Emily A. Largent, published in May in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, explores the… Read more

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  Award-Winning Essay: How Can Mobile Apps Improve Clinical Trials and Safeguard Participants?

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• IN THE MEDIA

  Researchers are finding links between people’s genes and complex attributes such as socioeconomic status and the time spent in school. The worry is that their results will be misconstrued, states an article in Nature. It cites a new Hastings Center project that will examine the field and advise researchers and stakeholders on how to conduct and talk about the work. The project is headed by senior research scholar Erik Parens.

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  Is Your Socioeconomic Status Written in Your Genes?

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• BIOETHICS FORUM ESSAY

  Why do citizen science projects get started, and what are the ethical challenges facing them? These questions underlie “When Citizens Do Science: Stories from Labs, Garages, and Beyond,” published in Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics,  which explores the world of science happening outside the carefully regulated bubble of academic research. “This is not to imply,” writes… Read more

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  Citizen Science: Potential Benefits and Ethical Challenges

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• Principal Investigators: Carolyn Neuhaus, The Hastings Center; Johanna T. Crane, Albany Medical College Funder: National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health This project is examining the recruitment and retention of participants for the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program, an unprecedented initiative to collect genetic and other health-related data from… Read more

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  Understanding “Engagement” in the All of Us Research Program

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• IN THE MEDIA

  Many technologies created to make life easier for people with disabilities may have the opposite effect. In an interview on The Future of the Future podcast, Joel Michael Reynolds discusses why that is and how to make these technologies more useful. Reynolds is the Rice Family Fellow in Bioethics and Humanities at The Hastings Center and an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

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  Hastings Scholar on Keys to Making Assistive Technology More Helpful

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• Lucas J. Matthews is a postdoctoral researcher at The Hastings Center and the Columbia Center for Research on Ethical, Legal & Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic & Behavioral Genetics. After completing a PhD in philosophy of science in 2016 at the University of Utah, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in behavioral genetics at the… Read more

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  Lucas J. Matthews

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