Imagine you are a lawyer for a hospital that wants to perform animal-to-human transplants. Your boss asks you to write up an informed-consent form for patients. What do you include? What ethical ...

In 1982, when I wrote my first ethics column for Genetic Engineering News, enthusiasm for genetic engineering’s potential to remake medicine, manufacturing, and agriculture was set against grave ...

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In my experience, launching a biotech startup is one of the most thrilling and consequential ventures a person can undertake. It combines the drive of entrepreneurship with the weight of human health.

Drew Endy examines ethical side of biotech Stanford University biologist Drew Endy delivered the inaugural Knox Lecture in Engineering Ethics, sponsored by the Tufts Gordon Institute, in the Alumnae ...

Dedicated to the responsible delivery of medical care, as well as the thoughtful pursuit of biological knowledge, bioethics has for decades been a vibrant field that has grown to touch almost every ...

Healthcare has long had an ethical framework. The fundamental ethical code for medicine dates from Hippocrates (c. 400 BC). The advent of modern biotechnology, which has brought about both high hopes ...

Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan on Thursday emphasised the importance of ethical biotechnology research, inspiring youth to pursue scientific careers, and enhanced collaboration with industry. The ...

The ethical and political implications of biotechnology will be examined in a new lecture series sponsored by Rochester Institute of Technology’s Department of Political Science in the College of ...

Guadalupe Hayes-Mota is director, bioethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. This article, "Using the CARES Framework to Build Ethical Biotech Startups" , originally ...