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He Jiankui's manuscript shows how he ignored ethical and scientific norms in creating the gene-edited twins Lulu and Nana.
A graduate student's suicide at UW Madison is a devastating cautionary tale about abusive lab environments.
Mark Israel explores the ethics of self-plagiarism and asks, when is it right to reproduce social research?
From all too scarce, to professionalized, the ethics of research is now everybody's business, argues Sarah Franklin.
Eco groups and global treaty blamed for delay in supply of vitamin-A enriched Golden Rice
As AI technology develops rapidly, it is widely recognized that ethical guidelines are required for safe and fair implementation in society. But is it possible to agree on what is 'ethical AI'? A detailed analysis of 84 AI ethics reports around the world, from national and international organizations, companies and institutes, explores this question, finding a convergence around core principles but substantial divergence on practical implementation.
Researchers need guidance on how to handle published work whose ethics have been questioned.
The ethical issues swirling around artificial intelligence (AI) are under-researched, with surprisingly little serious academic investigation into AI ethics, despite the huge amount of money pouring into the field and the rampant pace at which the technology is advancing.
To be successful as researchers, we must be able to think through the impacts of our work on society and speak up when necessary.
Study finds failure of English language medical journals to comply with international ethical standards.
Opinion: Black scientists are in the best position to understand what is so broken about the ideas of Watson and his army.
Scientists say that increasingly rigorous licensing procedures have complicated research efforts - and in some cases, stopped experiments completely.
UBC scientists spent decades developing Glybera, the world's first approved gene therapy. But market forces needed just two years to make the potentially life-saving drug disappear.
Oliver says gene editing is "going to cure all disease or kill every last one of us".
If the publishers of scientific journals everywhere enforced a universal code of ethics - if you violate the code, you cannot publish your scientific work - systematic bullies and harassers would be eliminated from their fields.
Scientists pride themselves on being keen observers, but many seem to have trouble spotting the problems right under their noses. Those who run labs have a much rosier picture of the dynamics in their research groups than do many staff members working in the trenches.
A scandal over an academic’s use of Facebook data highlights the need for research scrutiny.
The breadth of social and moral questions raised requires a new architecture for democratic debate, insists Simon Burall.
A new algorithm is trying to automate the process of identifying gang crimes. But some scientists warn that far from reducing gang violence, the program could do the opposite by eroding trust in communities, or it could brand innocent people as gang members.
