Babies blink, cry, and yawn—and a few weeks into their lives, they might smile. But do these movements mean that newborns have conscious experiences of perceiving the world around them? Or are these ...

Christine Grady, a top bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health and the wife of former top NIH official Anthony Fauci, was among the health bureaucrats who received a layoff notice on Tuesday, ...

When the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine announced that it had created human embryos specifically for research purposes, it talked up the a priori endorsement of three separate panels of ...

OXFORD, England — Professor Luke Gormally, who died April 30 at the age of 83, was a towering figure who was respected and admired for his personal integrity, courage and tireless defense of life at a ...

The past few decades have seen the ascendancy of a new class of science gadfly-the professional bioethicist. During this time, researchers have sometimes found themselves in a warring stance with ...

Why Is the Trump Administration Keeping Joe Biden’s Student Loan Deferments? China’s Population Is on the Way Down Audio By Carbonatix The fear of suffering (or deprivation of personal desires) is ...

Dr. Doug Diekema is a pediatric emergency department physician, bioethicist, and professor. He works at Seattle Children’s Hospital where he is Co-Director of Education for the Treuman Katz Center for ...

Advocates call it “right to die” or “medical aid in dying.” Opponents call it “assisted suicide.” These differences in language highlight two different views of a bill awaiting Governor Pritzker’s ...

After vocal opposition to his decision to join much-criticized CellTex Therapeutics, bioethicist Glenn McGee resigned from the stem cell company on February 28, reported Nature.

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