Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.

Many people with dementia are interested in taking part in research, including when they no longer have capacity to provide informed consent. Advance research directives (ARD) enable people to ...

The growing commercialization of science has raised concerns about financial conflicts of interest. Evidence suggests that such conflicts threaten the integrity of research and the well-being of ...

The commercial spaceflight industry is expanding opportunities for scientific research in space, but the industry needs clear ethical guidelines before human research is ready for liftoff. In a new ...

The IRBs are there for primarily federally funded research. But because this AI research is done with unconsented human data, ...

Researchers should be free to pursue lines of inquiry and the communication of knowledge and ideas without fear of repression or censorship. At the same time, they have the ethical obligation to ...

There are long-established guidelines proscribing the publication of articles based on scientific experiments or trials that fail to protect the rights of human research subjects. But, as an article ...

Oriel Zagazeta is a biology major with a chemistry minor and is a 2022-23 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. The use of stem cells in health care ...

Christopher Arellano Reyes majored in biology and minored in chemistry and biotechnology and was a 2022-23 health care ethics intern with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara ...

If all researchers were required to serve time on an ethics committee, not only would the system look entirely different, human research subjects might get greater protection.

Daedalus, Vol. 154, No. 2, The Ethics of Social Research: Perspectives from the Study of the Middle East & North Africa (Spring 2025), pp. 114-131 (18 pages) The essay draws on my experience in an ...