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What is ethics dumping?
experimental animals, to name just a few resources. This means that bioscience is often the focus of debates in research ethics. Nazi medical experiments and the Tuskegee trials in the US, where black men with syphilis were denied treatment to see how...
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ALH Accreditation Board
Further information on the 3Rs can be found here A new guiding principles document from the LASA Education Training and Ethics Section, and the RSPCA Animals in Science Department was recently published and will help course organisers and trainers in...
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Bad Moves: How Decision Making Goes Wrong and the Ethics of Smart Drugs
Barbara J Sahakian and Jamie Nicole Labuzetta Oxford University Press, £14.99 Barbara J Sahakian and Jamie Nicole Labuzetta Oxford University Press, £14.99 In being unable to reach a decision concerning the fate of Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth...
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The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation
— and what we should do about them, are the main concerns of Ben A Minteer’s pithy introduction to modern conservation ethics. His sights are set not on the possibility that we might techno-fix our way out of cataclysmic environmental degradation, but...
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Henry T Greely on He Jiankui’s CRISPR babies
Stanford law professor Henry T Greely's new book CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans explores the work of disgraced Chinese researcher He Jiankui, and how his controversial experiment will impact efforts to use gene-editing...
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“Just the idea of having these species back is already having an impact”
Ben Lamm Beth Shapiro, chief scientist at the de-extinction start-up Colossal, talks to Tom Ireland about the science and ethics of recreating long-lost species in a lab Professor Beth Shapiro is an evolutionary molecular biologist specialising in...
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Inside the killing jar
Why do entomologists kill so many insects? Professor Adam Hart discusses the ethics of entomology collections The Biologist 65(2) p26-29. Photos via NHM's Coleoptera Collection on Flickr. Standing in a back room of the Natural History Museum (NHM) in...
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Crime Genes
a third of Caucasian men, has been successfully used in the defence of violent criminals. Yet both the science and the ethics of the issue are still very much under debate. The variant in question is an allele conveying low activity of monoamine oxidase...
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Reports
should aspire to in caring for its vulnerable citizens. Dr Steven J Walden CBiol MRSB Huntington's Disease: Genetics, Ethics, and Hope for the Future 03 March 2021 Huntington’s disease is an incredibly complex topic. Dr. Yhnell’s lecture took her...
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RSB Fellows recognised in New Year Honours
working in fields as diverse as plant science, genetics, virology, environmental science, cell biology and research ethics have been recognised in the New Year Honours List. Biologists working in fields as diverse as plant science, genetics, virology,...
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Animal Science Meeting 2018 Report
support from NACWOs, NVSs or technicians. Research at POLEs may also lead to a collision of ethical frameworks when the ethics that we usually apply to farm animals, pets, and wildlife suddenly butt against ethics for laboratory animals. This work...
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Do It Yourself
and patent free, but as more amateurs set up their own gene labs, the scene is inevitably plagued by concerns about safety, ethics and biosecurity. The movement takes its name from DIYbio.org, an online group formed in 2008 by biology graduates Jason...
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Future
people the most effective medical treatment available. Biologists will also be involved in considering and regulating the ethics of this work. Chronobiology involves studying the natural rhythms of the body throughout the day. Research has shown that...
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Biology Now event covers breadth of life sciences
Research Council (BBSRC) covered three themes: Tackling Human Health Challenges, People and Planet, and Genomic Data and Ethics. Opening the inaugural event, Society president Professor Dame Jean Thomas FSB paid tribute to Fred Sanger, the double Nobel...
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"The wave has only got bigger"
CRISPR bacterial defence systems, of which there are many types, and she is a key figure in discussions on the safety and ethics of CRISPR-based technologies. TI: So many interesting breakthroughs in science involve chance conversations, introductions...
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"The wave has only got bigger"
CRISPR bacterial defence systems, of which there are many types, and she is a key figure in discussions on the safety and ethics of CRISPR-based technologies. TI: So many interesting breakthroughs in science involve chance conversations, introductions...
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Wounded Planet: How Declining Biodiversity Endangers Health and How Bioethics Can Help
is determined more by the conditions of everyday life than by medical treatment and healthcare services. Mainstream bioethics often addresses the care and autonomy of individual patients without considering the social and environmental conditions on...
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Resurrecting a mammoth seems pointless and cruel
and funding by feeding morsels of detail to the press with no peer-reviewed publications or open discussions about methods, ethics or welfare. The opaque plans talk of editing elephant embryos to include sections of recovered mammoth DNA, and the use of...
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Honorary Fellows G-K
Institute for Cell Biology and Cancer and was its chair until 2001. Sir John was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 2014 he delivered the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians. Lord...
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“The experiments we're doing today are riskier than they've ever been”
science, whether in biology, virology or microbiology. They don't have any specialist training in security, or risk, or ethics. I think it's important that they recognise that. It's unfair on them to suggest that they need to be experts in all these...
