Category Research Ethics

Polygenic Risk Scores to Select Embryos: A Need for Societal Debate
Hazar Haidar discusses the need for a societal debate to explore challenges related to polygenic embryo screening.

Are you a Credible Source?
Erica Seelemann discusses common psychological phenomena that contribute to our media environment becoming increasingly unreliable and shares how to know when you’re expert enough to be considered a credible source.

Heritable Human Genome Editing? It May Never Be Safe
Katie Hasson recounts the recent failures to edit the human genome.

COVID-19 animal research reveals ethical shortcomings
Andrew Fenton and L. Syd M Johnson outline several ethical issues with nonhuman animal research revealed by COVID-19 research

COVID-19 measures in animal labs: Bad news for rodents
Andrew Fenton reflects on a recent Science magazine article outlining the management of some laboratory rodent populations as a result of COVID-19.