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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This month marks the 70th anniversary of the writing of the Nuremberg Code, a set of medical research ethics principles laid down ...

Genetic research has moved from Mendelian genetics to sequence maps to the study of natural human genetic variation at the level of the genome. This past decade of discovery has been accompanied by a ...

Research comes with risks, so participants must be protected and supported as much as possible. bangoland/Shutterstock Academic research is not always abstract or theoretical. Nor does it take place ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems have been in development for decades. The release of freely available generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard, however, has emphasized the need ...

The Department of Defense officially adopted a set of ethical principles concerning the military's use of artificial intelligence, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. The principles act as a guide for all services ...