#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Disclosing Use of Results for Surveillance, Human Rights Approach to Front-of-Package Labeling, Right to Nutritious Food, Decentralized Biobanking Apps for Patient-Tracking of Biospecimen Research, + More https://mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethics-in-the-academic-literature-10930324

""Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine?” this week (January 8, 2025) in Nature. That this has met with barely a whimper on social media is astonishing, so I feel the need to comment. "

So begins an incredible summary of the modern fallacy of eugenics by Greg Gibson

#eugenics #crispr #humanGenetics #geneEditing #morals #bioethics

https://genomestake.blogspot.com/?m=1

Not what I expected!

More people preferred high diagnostic uncertainty than low, even though the higher uncertainty caused more worry.

Within- and between-subject, quant and qual results: https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2024-109932

Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - New Events, New Newsletter, Dire Wolf? Womb Transplant, Lost Influence - Not Trust, Courage & Foresight, Measles, Cuts Threats, AI Therapists, Eldercare Surveillance, Disrupted Caregiving, + Much More https://mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethicsbulletin-2519368-8a3ajiivxd-10930066

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Persuasion, Including Underserved Populations, Informed Consensus, Enhanced Independence, Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease, Time Toxicity, Call to Action, Reproductive Injustice, + More https://mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethics-in-the-academic-literature-10930067

Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - Ostracized Scientist Comeback? HALT Falls Short, New Events, New Mailing List: AI Ethics & Governance, New Seminar Recordings, Darkest Day, Lost Access, Measles on the Rise, Brain Implant Translates Thoughts, + More https://mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethicsbulletin-2519368-8a3ajiivxd-10929806

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - AI & Trust, Vaccine Inequity, Predicting Chronic Opioid Use, Advancing Maternal & Perinatal Health Through Clinical Trials, Long Arc, Patient Autonomy, Global Health 'With Justice', + More https://mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethics-in-the-academic-literature-10929807

Can #AI improve #healthcare?

#ambientListening apps that take notes during appointments seemed to improve efficiency and make clinicians' jobs easier.

But it didn't seem to increase clinicians' confidence in the #LLM tool.

https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.60637

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - Community Engagement for AI Health Research in Africa, AI Generated Neuroscience Letters to the Editor, Public Moral Judgments, Clinical Ethics Reasoning in Practice, Slow Codes as Ethical Disobedience, + More https://mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethics-in-the-academic-literature-10929531

#Bioethics Seminar - Margaret Battin, PhD, "Sex and the Planet: What Opt-In Reproduction Could Do for the Globe" - Mon, Mar 31, Noon EDT. Open to all, Join in person (lunch provided), Feinstone Hall, @johnshopkinssph | https://mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethics-seminar-10929440

US DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy protection after CEO's failed takeovers

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-25/23andme-files-bankruptcy-genetic-testing-home-kits/105091002

Attorney general urges Californians: Consider deleting genetic data from 23andMe https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article302597434.html #bioethics #bankruptcy #uslaw #uspol

Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - Sugar Tax, Navigating the AI Landscape, HIV Drugs Shortages, Landmark Study Canceled, Imperiled, Starkest Warning, Fear Spreading, Working Fairly, Unproven Treatments, Don't Wait, + More https://mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethicsbulletin-2519368-8a3ajiivxd-10929288

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Enhancing Research Ethics Capacity, Research Community Perspectives, Organoids, Regulating Health Care AI, Soldier Enhancement, + More https://mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethics-in-the-academic-literature-10929219

The two most recent episodes of #BioUnethical with David Thorstad, Emily Largent, and @GovindPersad were very (very!) good.

Hosts Leah Pierson and Sophie Gibert may be doing reflective discussion better than anyone — outstanding stage setting, questioning, improvising, etc.

https://www.biounethical.com