Medical practitioners and life science researchers increasingly complain about bioethics as an inadequate endeavour that impedes both biomedical research and ethics itself. Some bioethicists have ...

Stem cell IVF could enable same-sex couples and single parents to have genetically related children. It’s time to think ...

Pope Leo XIV has praised an international bioethics summit in Rome for advancing an “authentically human” approach to science, urging researchers to pursue truth grounded in the dignity of the human ...

Dr. Marielle Gross is the founder and CEO of heny, a decentralized biobank. Here’s where she says the blockchain and medical research studies overlap. Members of the heny team. CEO Marielle Gross is ...

A near-death trauma and immigrant experience informs Guadalupe Hayes-Mota’s work developing ethical frameworks for all ...

The Department's highly successful Master of Arts program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities emphasizes the multi- and interdisciplinary nature of the field. Since 1995, it has provided advanced ...

Dec. 27, 2025 Stanford scientists have uncovered how mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can very rarely trigger heart inflammation in young men — and how that risk might be reduced. They found that the vaccines ...

It is hard to read a newspaper, watch a news show, or listen to the radio without hearing the voice of the bioethicist. Cloning, stem cell research, genetic testing, gene therapy, managed care, organ ...

After almost 35 years at the University of Minnesota, Medicine Professor Dr. Steven Miles announced Sunday to medical school leaders that he plans to retire after the 2016-17 school year. While his ...

If the coronavirus pandemic taught us anything, it’s that existing social inequities have an outsized impact upon the health of certain populations. This creates a need to think even more broadly and ...

This academic year 2018-2019, we again have over 30 students enrolled in the Medicine, Society & Culture concentration of the M.A. in Bioethics and Medical Humanities program. Below, read biographies ...

The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No by Carl Elliott, W.W. Norton, 368 pages If I told you that doctors had injected live cancer cells into elderly Jewish ...