Category: Ethics
A Japanese Lab is Trying to Create ‘Lab Babies’ – Is That a Good Thing? Discussing Ethics Behind Such Research
Caroline Wharton | June 7, 2023
GUEST POST: The New York Post recently wrote an article commenting on a novel study published in the renowned journal Nature, in which the Hayashi Lab at Kyushu University of Japan claims to be on the path to growing human babies in vitro. Hayashi and team induced pluripotent stem cells – cells that can be differentiated into other types of
Medical Researchers Carry Out Unethical Research On Young, Mexican Women
Brenna Lewis | January 16, 2020
Recently, NPR publicized the results of a highly-unethical study conducted by researchers seeking to test the safety of IVF. NPR notes, “Researchers have conducted a controversial study that involved paying dozens of young women at a hospital near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to get artificially inseminated so their embryos could be flushed out of their bodies and analyzed for research purposes.”