Genetics, Race
CERA Statement Against the Weaponization of Genetic Research
The shooting in Buffalo that resulted in the deaths of ten Black Americans is one of many in a series of tragedies that ...
Subject: Genetics
Clinical Trials & Studies, Genetics, Research Ethics, Science
Share Your ELSI Research Tools
by Deanne Dunbar Dolan, PhD I write today to encourage ELSI scholars to deposit their published and unpublished res...
Children/Adolescents, Education, Genetics, Health Disparities, Social Justice
Why should we care about social and behavioral genomics?
By Daphne O. Martschenko, PhD, Lucas J. Matthews, PhD, Maya Sabatello, LLB, PhD Only a couple of decades ago, extensive ...
Editorial-AJOB, Ethics, Genetics
Preparing For The Next Generation of Ethical Challenges Concerning Heritable Human Genome ...
by Robert Klitzman, MD This editorial can be found in the latest issue of American Journal of Bioethics. https://www.tan...
Editorial-AJOB, Genetics
Upstream Ethical Mapping of Germline Genome Editing
This piece appears as an editorial in the August 2020 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics. You can read this piec...
BioethicsTV, Clinical Trials & Studies, End of Life Care, Genetics, Informed Consent
BioethicsTV (Feb. 24-28): #TheGoodDoctor #NewAmsterdam #ChicagoMed
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. The Good Doctor (Season 3; Episode 16):Who consents when there is more than one personality; New...
Genetics, Health Regulation & Law, OPC
Patenting foundational technologies – recent developments in the CRISPR patent struggle
by Julian Cockbain[1] and Sigrid Sterckx[2] In a target article in this Journal in 2018, for which we were two of the co...
Clinical Trials & Studies, Genetics, Informed Consent, Research Ethics, Science
The Price for Eternal Youth is $1 Million and Dumping Ethics
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. As the legend goes, in the 16th Century, when he was 51 years of age, Ponce de Leon received per...
Clinical Ethics, Clinical Trials & Studies, Ethics, Genetics, HIV/AIDS, Public Health
What does the future hold for gene editing in China?
by Vera Lúcia Raposo, Ph.D. Last December it was made public that He Jiankui was sentenced to 3 years in prison and a fi...
Environmental Ethics, Gender Disparities, Genetics, Global Ethics, Health Care, Health Disparities, Health Regulation & Law, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, In Memoriam, Justice, Neuroethics, Pharmaceuticals, Politics, Privacy, Professionalism, Public Health, Reproductive Ethics, Science, Social Justice, Technology
Top Ten Bioethics Stories of 2019
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. and Keisha Ray, Ph.D. The end of the year usually brings a media blitz of top ten lists for the ...
Cultural, Ethics, Genetics, Justice, Politics, Social Justice
Trump, “Jewish-Americans”, Othering, and the Lessons of Dividing
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Last week I became a Jewish-American. No, I did not change my citizenship. No, I did not change ...
Genetics, Health Regulation & Law, Informed Consent, Justice, Privacy
Immigrant DNA Collection: Fighting Crime or Moral Panic
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In late August 2019, BuzzFeed reported that, “The Trump administration wants to enable Customs a...