The Declaration of Helsinki is a set of ethical principles developed by the World Medical Association (WMA) to guide medical research involving human participants. It was first adopted in 1964 and has been revised several times since then. These principles [...]
On April 25, 1953, Nature published the discovery of the double helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). James Watson and Francis Crick deciphered the genetic material of living beings from photograph 51 taken by X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin. Authorship in [...]
Peter Singer has been awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities and Social Sciences [shared with Steven Pinker] for “innovative academic contributions in the spheres of rationality and the moral domain” as announced by its sponsors. Philosopher [...]
Quantifying creativity in research work Society has accepted that revolutionary scientific advances and innovation are the engine of prosperity and, as a result, research spending has grown over the years. In the United States, funding for research increased more than [...]
Artificial embryos, also called embryoids, embryonic models or blastoids, are cell agglomerates obtained from stem cells that reflect, to a certain extent, some structures and functions of embryos. In order to be able to study this intriguing and complex stage [...]
The development of new tools in medicine thanks to technology has also produced that their indiscriminate use can cause the relationship between doctor and patient to be lost in delicate moments that would require a more empathic treatment in the [...]
A research team led by the Spaniard Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte has published a paper in the journal Nature Aging in which they claim to have achieved cell and tissue rejuvenation in mice, using the technique already described by Shinya [...]
A recent article published in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics presents the results of a national survey conducted in 2018 for the project “Research Integrity in Norway” about scientific fraud. A total of 7,291 responses were obtained in a [...]
Clinical research on some drugs for pregnant and lactating women sometimes tries to stop for legal, ethical and safety reasons, when there is not enough clinical evidence to give them the desired reliability. This is because some drugs used in [...]
Health Care Analysis has published a new study on gender transition, entitled Gender Transition: Is There a Right to Be Forgotten? The privacy of citizens of developed countries has been affected by access to personal data for marketing, politics and [...]
Gene therapy risks must be evaluated in each clinical trial A news published last October 1 in the Wall Street Journal (see HERE) affirms that the prospects for the human use of gene therapy enter a dark phase when the [...]
In recent years, research that uses stem cells in regenerative medicine has been developed, to create repairing treatments for tissues and organs. Our Observatory has published several articles referring to the bioethical aspects of these researches and their, until now, [...]
