Insoo Hyun, philosopher, director of life sciences at the Museum of Science in Boston, and an affiliate of the HMS Center for Bioethics, comments on ethical issues raised by a lead story in the journal Nature this week on how rat-human hybrid brains offer new ways to study human neuro disorders.
Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, PhD, JD, spoke to Nature for an article on commercially available tests that "rank" embryos on the basis of their risk of developing certain diseases.
Francis Shen, JD, PhD, and Vardit Ravitsky, PhD, have received research funding through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH Common Fund has launched the Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) program.
Center for Bioethics Fellow Jay Baruch MD '02, recalls impatient patient who pulled her own breathing tube (and lived to tell about it) in his new book.
