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MPG Primer: Setting up a Biobank: Who? What? Why?

Broad Institute

Several talks each year focus on bioethical considerations in genomics research. Sessions are generally interactive and attendees are encouraged to raise questions. Videos of Primer sessions are made freely available for viewing here and are geared towards a wide scientific audience.

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Nixing the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee Is Ill-Advised

PLOS: DNA Science

And my graduate student in bioethics wrote a compelling history of the first newborn screen for an “inborn error of metabolism,” phenylketonuria (PKU). Will ditching the advisory committee stop other states from adding Krabbe to their lists? Newborn screening has been a staple of pediatrics for many years.

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Advancing and Safeguarding Clinical Research for a Better Tomorrow

Advarra

Furthermore, Advarras IRB includes hundreds of expert members, many of whom bring expertise and experience in several therapeutic areas and disciplines, including oncology, bioethics, investigational pharmacy, internal medicine, psychology, physiology, radiology, public health, pediatrics, nursing, and social and behavioral science.

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Something in the Air – Environmental DNA Update

PLOS: DNA Science

The speed and ease of analyzing eDNA raises the bioethical issue of privacy when applied to DNA from people. CODA DNA tests can have repercussions, and tracking eDNA is no exception.

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Researchers generate human embryo-like structures that include extraembryonic tissue

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

This is because human embryos are typically not cultured for longer than 14 days because of bioethical concerns, and gastrulation occurs between 17- and 21-days post-fertilization. Gastrulation, the process where an embryo reorganizes itself from a hollow sphere into a multilayered structure, is considered a 'black box' of human development.

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Bayer establishes Bioethics Council

The Pharma Data

The Bioethics Council will maintain regular dialogue with Bayer leadership on the implementation and long-term development of Bayer’s Bioethics Policy. The Bioethics Council will maintain regular dialogue with Bayer leadership on the implementation and long-term development of Bayer’s Bioethics Policy. “I

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Hastings Center partners on AI project led by national academies

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is partnering with a group of leading health, bioethics, equity, tech, patient advocacy, and research organizations, including The Hastings Center, to develop an Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct (AICC).