In science, ethical guidelines ensure that research takes place in a way that respects public trust and is conducted ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Explore 25 human experiments too disturbing to ignore. From Tuskegee to Nazi camps, discover the shocking medical atrocities ...

All researchers conducting studies with human subjects and members of institutional review boards may soon have to undergo mandatory training in human research ethics.

It is clear to us, as legal and bioethics scholars whose research often focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications of emerging biotechnologies, that these directives will have profoundly ...

A new study highlights key challenges and tensions in research ethics, particularly in light of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, and calls for the adoption of new research ethics ...

This Ethics Spotlight explores the impact AI is having on human dignity, part of the Markkula Center’s work in the international project New Humanism in the time of Neurosciences and Artificial ...