Science and Ethics

Barbra Streisand is not alone. At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famo... (2018)

This biologist built a living robot from frog cells — and it could hold the key to the future of regenerative medicine:This interview is an episode … (2023)

FOR THE past four billion years or so the only way for life on Earth to produce a sequence of DNA—a gene—was by copying a sequence it already had t... (2019)

paper “Ethical issues in research using datasets of illicit origin” by Daniel R. Thomas, Sergio Pastrana, Alice Hutchings, Richard Clayton, and Ala... (2017)

Australian bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a knack for provocation. Take human cloning. He says most of us would readily accept it… (2019)

We could make people less stinky, more resistant to radiation, even less dependent on food and oxygen. But would the new creature be human? (2018)

A new guidebook for tech companies helps them imagine future scenarios where their tech might end up causing societal harm. (2018)

This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as “miracles coming down from God.” If that’s true, ... (2020)