A proposed measure in Switzerland would have made it the first country to ban medical and scientific experimentation on animals. It failed to pass in February 2022, with only 21 percent of voters in ...

Monday’s Four Corners program on gender affirming care highlighted concerns about research undertaken with 79 young trans people and their families who sought help at the Children’s Hospital Westmead.

A new study highlights key challenges and tensions in research ethics, particularly in light of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, and calls for the adoption of new research ethics ...

A few weeks ago, our Board of Scientific Advisor Susan Goldhaber wrote about a better way to determine the toxicity of compounds than using animal studies. A scientist and veterinarian provide some ...

Animal research’s benefits are clear – but public awareness of what it involves is not. Javier Pierini/DigitalVision via Getty Images A proposed measure in Switzerland would have made that country the ...

Ethics in STEM is a research area that focuses on the critical ethical dimensions of our designed and engineered world. We seek to challenge various cultural assumptions about what ethics is and how ...

Oriel Zagazeta is a biology major with a chemistry minor and is a 2022-23 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. The use of stem cells in health care ...

Ethics studies how people should act and how values shape individual and collective decisions. Applied ethics brings philosophical reasoning to real-world dilemmas in health care, technology, public ...