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What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos

Bill of Health

There is no specific regulation governing such research in the U.S.; it’s just that the federal government won’t fund the research. 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.)

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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

Health Populi

We’ve witnessed the decline of trust in health care, and in institutions – government, media, NGOs – quantified and tracked in the annual Edelman Trust Barometer. 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.