Chinese scientist He Jiankui sent shockwaves around the world last year with his claim that he had modified twin babies' DNA before their birth. The modification was made with gene editing tool CRISPR ...

Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of ...

Federal health officials have found ethical lapses in eight Harvard Medical School experiments involving human subjects. The school said the audit should improve its research work. No patients were ...

The realm of scientific and psychological experimentation often dances on the edge of ethics and legality. Many experiments conducted in the past, once shrouded in secrecy, have been declassified, ...

I will follow that system which . . . I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. —From the Hippocratic oath The ethic of that ancient oath “by ...

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AS many as 200 psycho-logy pupils attempted “unethical” experiments, it has emerged. Kids also tried to rope younger children ...