The city of Philadelphia is apologizing to Black individuals who were subjected to unethical medical experiments when they were incarcerated at the Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s through the 1970s.

In December, the University of California San Francisco Medical School issued a report revealing unethical experiments done by two doctors in its dermatology department in the 1960s and '70s. The ...

Chinese scientist He Jiankui sent shockwaves around the world last year with his claim that he had modified twin babies' DNA before their birth. The modification was made with gene editing tool CRISPR ...

It’s pretty important to have strong ethics even when pursuing scientific knowledge. We, in what I think most would agree is a positive move, have drawn a line at which information comes at too high a ...

A recent news story describing how scientists in China generated the first human-monkey chimeric embryos (unborn monkeys with human body parts)—a deliberate and unnatural crossing of species—sent ...