“Mr Mayor,” said K., “you keep calling my case one of the smallest, yet a great many officials have put their minds to it, and while it may have been very...

The Hastings Center is saddened by the death of Albert Jonsen, a leader in the field of bioethics, on October 21 at the age of 89. He was a Hastings...

Albert R. Jonsen, a pioneer of medicine and a founder of the field of medical ethics, died peacefully in his home on October 21 at 89. We first met in 1973, when I was a medical student and I was interested in medical ethics. He gave me the best career advice I have ever received. “Don’t do it,” he said. “Finish your medical training first. If you don’t have the same credentials as the doctors, and share their world, they won’t listen.”

Writing in Scientific American, Hastings director of research Josephine Johnston and Hastings Fellow Barbara Koenig say newborn sequencing should be done in targeted ways that are attentive to the needs of babies, families, and health systems.

As the cost of genome sequencing decreases, researchers and clinicians are debating whether all newborns should be sequenced at birth, facilitating a lifetime of personalized medical care. But while sequencing...

Edited by Josephine Johnston, Erik Parens, and Barbara A. Koenig As the cost of genome sequencing decreases, researchers and clinicians are debating whether all newborns should be sequenced at birth,...

This was one of the many big questions explored at Genomics and Society, a major conference last week on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic research. Several Hastings...

Health apps, wearables, and other digital technologies that collect personal health data are profoundly changing the ways that biomedical research is conducted and the role of research participants. These technologies...

Hastings Investigators: Erik Parens and Josephine Johnston NSIGHT Project Principal Investigator: Barbara Koenig, University of California, San Francisco Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and...