POSTS TAGGED AS ethical issues

Organoids to Gastruloids

An early human embryo
“In 2020, a collaborative group of researchers from the University of Cambridge (UK) and the Hubrecht Institute [MORE]

Landmark Review of AI in Global Health

AI in healthcare
From the Lancet article:  “AI-driven health interventions fit into four categories relevant to global health researchers: (1) diagnosis, [MORE]

Digital Medicine

Medical digital enterprise
This is an extensive piece on digital medicine, from pathology to security and regulatory issues, and what they [MORE]

Functional Lab-Grown Brain Organoids

 
Slice of brain organoid
UCSD neuroscientists have grown stem cells into tissue resembling the brain’s cortex.  Further, those “organoids” display EEG [MORE]

IoT for the research laboratory

Internet of things
The Internet of Things (IoT) suggests that it is possible to integrate any number of devices or information [MORE]

Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques

Mitochondria
Barth syndrome, Glutaric aciduria, Leigh disease, Pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency (et al) are rare metabolic disorders, usually inborn, that result from [MORE]

Sharing Tissue for Research

Here’s an example of two trains heading toward each other on the same track.  A couple of years ago, [MORE]

MUSING – The Transcendental Mrs. Lacks

Personalized medicine evokes “big science”- large research grants, geonomic and proteomic instruments, bioinformatics data mining, individually “tailored” therapeutics, a slew [MORE]