Scientists make most authentic kidney replicas so far
Lab-grown organoids reproduce some of a kidney’s internal structure and function
Scientists make most authentic kidney replicas so far: Lab-grown organoids reproduce some of a kidney’s internal structure and function | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
17.09.2025 17:53 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry
A new policy document outlines China’s plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years, and proposes developing devices for both health and consumer uses.
EVs, solar panels, and now, brain-computer interfaces. In a new policy document, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in the same brain technology that Elon Musk's Neuralink is building. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/china-...
29.08.2025 14:20 — 👍 38 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 4
📘 [PUBLICATION] La Revue Française d’Éthique Appliquée #RFEA consacre sa dernière parution à une question vive et parfois controversée : peut-on « parler pour les autres ? » Faut-il toujours se taire quand on n’est pas « concerné·e » ? 👉 En savoir plus sur le numéro : bit.ly/RFEA16
13.06.2025 12:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven
with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
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This should be an excellent, and (we hope) important meeting. Join us!
09.07.2025 01:16 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Call for Neuroethics Essays
The International Neuroethics Society (INS) and the International Youth Neuroscience Association (IYNA) are pleased to announce a call for submissions for the Neuroethics Essay Contest in 2025. Now in...
The #Neuroethics Essay Contest deadline has been extended to July 31, 2025. neuroethicsessaycontest.com/call/
Don't miss this opportunity to submit your academic, general audience or video essay at the intersections of the mind and #brain sciences, #ethics, and #law.
24.06.2025 21:14 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
📢 New blog post!
@emmacave.bsky.social, Chair of the NCOB's working group on stem cell-based embryo models, reflects on our recent #policy roundtable and explores next steps for #SCBEM regulation in the UK.
Read it here:🔗➡️https://bit.ly/SCBEM-regulation-blog
#regulation #makingethicsmatter
04.06.2025 09:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
An educated populace is a better electorate
19.05.2025 16:54 — 👍 63 🔁 36 💬 2 📌 0
World’s first personalized CRISPR therapy given to baby with genetic disease
Nature - Treatment seems to have been effective, but it is not clear whether such bespoke therapies can be widely applied.
A baby boy with a devastating genetic disease is thriving after becoming the first known person to receive a bespoke, CRISPR therapy-for-one, designed to correct his specific disease-causing mutation
https://go.nature.com/4ml3ZW6
18.05.2025 13:31 — 👍 129 🔁 36 💬 0 📌 5
Opinion | I.V.F., Gene Selection and Embryo Screening: Is This the Future of Making Babies?
Advances in genetic testing and artificial intelligence are changing what’s possible for those undergoing I.V.F. Are we ready for the future of fertility?
“By giving parents the illusion of so much control,” Anna Louie Sussman writes, certain I.V.F. technologies “could lead to viewing embryos as a consumer product while overemphasizing the role of genetics in life outcomes.”
Read more from The Embryo Question, a series from Times Opinion:
01.04.2025 15:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
UK gov researching AI homicide prediction tool. Problems are clear and many. However, lets not forget that risk assessment is somewhat unavoidable standard practice in criminal law and forensic psychiatry. Much depends on which data used and for what precisely.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
09.04.2025 08:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
This paper is the weirdest & most unsettling thing I've ever (co)written. & HUGE science questions—not just ectogenesis, but could a "brainless" animal survive? would it be a good model for a "real" animal? And ethics question, which are much bigger with humans. But I think it needs discussion.
26.03.2025 01:55 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
Human “bodyoids” could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages.
Imagine human bodies grown without complete brains, without consciousness.
These are "bodyoids."
And today in MIT Technology Review, researchers from Stanford University are ready to talk about them.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/25/1...
25.03.2025 18:52 — 👍 31 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 3
US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists
Details emerge about Natal conference in Austin later this month, set to feature figures linked to far-right politics
New from me: the second annual Natalism conference is happening later this month at a UT Austin owned venue, it includes a bunch of far right speakers including self described eugenicists www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Reporting from the frontiers of health & medicine.
Science correspondent at the Economist. Never not looking for birds. 🇬🇧🇩🇰🏳️🌈
Health + science journalist. Writing a book about the science and history of fertility | fan of sparkles | say hi: kristen@kristenvbrown.com
🧬Founded in 1948, the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is the primary professional membership organization for #humangenetics specialists worldwide.
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Interested in #BioEthic and #ResearchEthic.
(1) Intensive Care Practitioner @ Cannes General Hospital, France.
(2) PhD student @ Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES, Marseille, France
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Cognitive neuroscientist.
Professor at College de France in Paris.
Head of the NeuroSpin brain imaging facility in Saclay.
President of the Scientific Council of the French national education ministry (CSEN)
Décrypter la complexité et la diversité du vivant
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Eve GAZAVE lab @IJMonod - Stem Cells, Regeneration and Evolution using the annelid Platynereis dumerilii
Professor of Healthcare Law, Durham University.
Core member of Health & Social Care Committee Expert Panel.
Member of BMA Medical Ethics Committee.
Expert on informed consent, medical treatment of children and young people and emerging biotechnologies.
Science told by scientists.
An online magazine to share the fascinating, fun and personal side of science.
📍Institut Pasteur, Paris
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Anthropologue, chargé de recherche au CNRS.
Genre, parenté, procréation, Chine.
Auteur du livre "négociations et compromis. Pratiques matrimoniales en chine rurale contemporaine" (2024)
Director of Language & Genetics at Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.
Tracing the complex connections between genes, brains, speech & language.
Website: https://www.mpi.nl/people/fisher-simon-e
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Le compte de l'Espace éthique Île-de-France et de l'Espace national de réflexion éthique sur les maladies neuro-évolutives.
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Putting ethics at the centre of decision-making in biomedicine and health.
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Scientist studying development of embryos and building their models from stem cells. The author of #TheDanceofLife. Warsaw/Oxford/Cambridge/LA.
Head of Laboratory of Ethics of AI & Neuroscience, Deputy Director of the Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine, Technical University of Munich. Member of UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group on the Ethics of Neurotechnology.
Writing about CRISPR, synthetic bio, reprotech and neuroscience for @statnews. Ex-WIRED. Berkeley journalism alum.
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Legal Scholar @UHH
Law & Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience
Advocate for the human right to freedom of thought
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