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What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos

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This “rejuvenation” of mature cell types was the revolutionary discovery of the Japanese biologist Shinya Yamanaka, which won him a share of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.) The post What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos first appeared on Bill of Health.

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The Elevator, Trust and the Data Commons: Bart de Witte Makes the Case for Open AI for Health at WHO/Europe

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public’s faith in Tech had tumbled to its lowest level since Edelman began measuring it in the study – falling 21 percentage points over 10 years from 2012. When I recently wrote Trust-Busted: the Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health , I focused on Edelman’s finding that the U.S.

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Autonomy, Insurance, and Luck

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One is the philosophical principle of autonomy, which I regularly teach in my bioethics class. From 2007-2012, I lived down the hallway in my Houston condominium from Robert Durst. It’s quite a list, so sometimes I mention it to my friends, so they will be as amazed as I am. You have to live knowing it could happen to you.