News tagged with ethical framework

Scholar calls for a new legal, ethical framework for research with human tissue specimens

A lawyer and researcher at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics says a new legal and ethical framework needs to be placed around the donation and banking of human biological material, one that would more clearly ...

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'More carrot, less stick' needed to regulate the press

A new report published by Oxford University's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) argues that a 'carrot rather than stick' approach might be recommended in the framing of any future press regulation.

Technology / Internet

created May 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Postpone the nuclear waste decision

Although nuclear waste has been produced for a long time, there is still no good way to discard the highly toxic material, which remains hazardous for up to 130 000 years. In his new book titled Nuclear Waste Management and ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

HTML5 spec editor slams Google & gang's DRM bid

(PhysOrg.com) -- A draft proposal by Google, Microsoft and Netflix to introduce mechanisms for copy protection on web videos has generated strong opposition and a response that the proposal is "unethical." ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

The governance of synthetic biology

The Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center is launching a new web-based Synthetic Biology Scorecard, designed to track federal and non-federal efforts to improve the governance of synthetic biology resear ...

Biology / Other

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

City research shows the investment and health risks of new nuclear build are low

As part of The SPRing Report published in December 2011, Professor Philip Thomas of the Risk Management, Reliability and Maintenance Group within City's Systems and Control Centre provided comparative analysis of the costs ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pions don't want to decay into faster-than-light neutrinos, study finds

When an international collaboration of physicists came up with a result that punched a hole in Einstein's theory of special relativity and couldn't find any mistakes in their work, they asked the world to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (35) | comments 170 | with audio podcast

The genographic project confirms humans migrated out of Africa through Arabia

Evolutionary history shows that human populations likely originated in Africa, and the Genographic Project, the most extensive survey of human population genetic data to date, suggests where they went next. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The ethics of biofuels

An article in the current issue of Global Change Biology Bioenergy outlines a framework for evaluating biofuels in order to address ethical issues surrounding the rapidly evolving race to develop biofuels.

Biology / Other

created May 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Regenerative medicine success for muscles

(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative strategy for regenerating skeletal muscle tissue using cells from the recipient’s own body is outlined in UCL research published today.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Recommendations to the review of the legislation governing the use of human embryos in research

The Australian Stem Cell Centre (ASCC) has submitted its recommendations to the independent committee reviewing the Australian legislation governing the use of human embryos in research. The ASCC's submission makes a series ...

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created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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