Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly reportedly gave an unidentified 79-year-old man exclusive access to its experimental obesity and ...

Nairobi, 01 June, 2026 / 10:46 pm (ACI Africa). A Kenyan Catholic priest and bioethics scholar has weighed in on the controversy surrounding a proposed U.S.-linked Ebola quarantine and treatment ...

The paper was a philosophical exercise, not a policy recommendation or a roadmap to explain an increase in the lone star tick population and cases of alpha-gal syndrome, both of which are the result ...

During one of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent appearances on Capitol Hill, Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) brought up an unusual allegation: that in 2001, he collected a dead raccoon’s ...

Five Stanford undergraduates took first place in the National Bioethics Bowl on April 11, following a nail-biting finish. After a marathon day of debates, the team’s final round ended in a tie. To ...

Future people count. There could be a lot of them. We can make their lives better. -- William MacAskill, What We Owe The Future [Longtermism is] quite possibly the most dangerous secular belief system ...

(The views expressed here are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.) We saw in Reviving Bioethics For An AI-Driven Future In Healthcare that the concept of ethics is often mentioned in the ...

As OpenAI marks its tenth birthday in December 2025, it can celebrate becoming one of the world’s leading companies, worth perhaps as much as US$1 trillion (£750 billion). But it started as a ...

Guadalupe Hayes-Mota is director, bioethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. This article, "Using the CARES Framework to Build Ethical Biotech Startups" , originally ...

The origin of medical ethics often boils down to the now-common expression “do no harm.” While an updated version of the Hippocratic Oath is still administered to many physicians as they begin their ...

Megan covers the intersection of science and society. How is biomedical research funded? Who benefits? And how do new technologies reflect and shape our values? You can reach Megan on Signal at ...