Controversial trials in which volunteers are intentionally infected with Covid-19 could accelerate vaccine development, according to the World Health Organization, which has released new guidance on how the approach could be ethically justified despite the potential dangers for participants. From a report: So-called challenge trials are a mainstream approach in vaccine development and have been used in malaria, typhoid and flu,…
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Scientists Partially Revive Disembodied Pig Brains, Raising Huge Questions
Researchers from Yale have developed a system capable of restoring some functionality to the brains of decapitated pigs for at least 10 hours after death. The achievement has tremendous scientific potential, but it raises some serious ethical and philosophical concerns.Read more…Source: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-partially-revive-disembodied-pig-brains-rai-1834111182…
Scientists Put Human Brain Genes in Monkeys and Made Them Smarter
It’s time for the latest edition of “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?”, the game show that pits seemingly unethical science against potentially catastrophic predictions. In today’s competition, scientists in China (one point already for the catastrophic team) announce they used gene-editing to place human brain genes in rhesus macaque monkeys and it made their brains… Continue reading Scientists Put Human Brain Genes in Monkeys and Made Them Smarter