New research is being conducted to explore how engineers understand and navigate ethics on a day-to-day basis, prompting questions about how ethics education can be improved. Engineering disasters are ...

The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE) has received $9.4 million in funding for a five-year expansion of the Center for Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) and Center for Resources ...

The modern biomedical industry might not exist in its present form if not for the contribution of Henrietta Lacks, a Virginia tobacco farmworker who died of cervical cancer in 1951. Cells from her ...

What if a U.S. Air Force pilot, using a computer chip implanted in her brain, could fly a plane remotely to bomb a target? In this scenario, is it ethical for the Air Force to implant the chip in the ...

In 1978, the birth of the world’s first “test-tube baby” led to debates over the use of embryos in research for in vitro fertilization. These questions were reviewed by the U.S. Department of Health, ...