🧭 Bioethics

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Human embryo models (SCBEM) are powerful but probably won't get a Nobel; lessons about rewards in science - The Niche

Cell biologist explains why research on stem cell-based embryo models (SCBEM) is unlikely to be Nobel Prize-worthy.

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Connecting more youth to First Nations-led care

New Seabird Island program offers healing, hope, support for young adults

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Ad Planetam per Aspera: Beyond Human Health Extensionism

Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2026)

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Why Prevention Sometimes Fails

And how we create the conditions for success....

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Kalshi Will Offer Sports-Style Betting on Drug Trial Results

Kalshi Inc. is expanding in biotechnology by offering wagers on the outcomes of clinical trials and regulatory decisions, giving traders a more direct way to bet on key industry catalysts.

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Four children with terminal brain cancer saved by new cell therapy

(New Scientist) – An experimental immunotherapy has beaten aggressive brain tumours in a handful of children, and a personalised version is now being tested on more patients The experimental treatment, called tumour-associated antigen (TAA) T-cell therapy, was given to 33 … Read More

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France’s National Assembly gives final approval to assisted-dying bill after years of debate

(AP) – France’s National Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to a bill allowing adults with incurable illnesses to receive lethal medication, the culmination of years of debate over end-of-life care. But the 291-241 vote in the lower house of parliament … Read More

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AI avatars are reshaping society in China — the law is trying to catch up

(Nature) – Digital people are fulfilling roles from running hospitals to giving lectures to offering companionship. At the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Guangzhou, students can listen to lectures given by AI avatars that look and speak … Read More

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Can A.I. Keep a Parent Alive?

(The New Yorker) – You can now make a virtual replica of a loved one. The question is what it can give you in return. Gaia Alari, a thirty-six-year-old artist, lives in Bergamo, Italy. In the past few years, her … Read More

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AI is changing what we can do. Who we become is still our choice

(The Humanist Review) – To understand AI’s effect on moral character, ethicist Kwame Anthony Appiah goes back to John Stuart Mill, and the idea that people are shaped by their choices. Technologies that extend human powers may also, by degrees, … Read More

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Israel harvested organs in ’90s without consent

Israel admits that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families.