RSS del Observatori de Bioètica i Dret UB

El país germànic extreu quatre vegades més plasma que Espanya, però té un model d'obtenció que genera dubtes bioètics i d'autosuficiència.

The deadly 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel, and Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, have upended lives — including those of researchers throughout the region.

Today, Meta is announcing an important milestone in the pursuit of that fundamental question. Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), a non-invasive neuroimaging technique in which thousands of brain activity measurements are taken per second, we showcase an AI system capable of decoding the unfolding of visual representations in the brain with an unprecedented temporal resolution.

It’s been a busy week in politics, but below headline news of personnel change at the heart of government, another story broke which will be of great personal and professional interest to many in the UK and beyond. The Department of Health and Social Care has received a set of recommendations from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) for changes to the HFE Act, which governs fertility treatments and embryo research in the UK.

A formal demonstration that mammalian pluripotent stem cells possess preimplantation embryonic cell-like (naive) pluripotency is the generation of chimeric animals through early embryo complementation with homologous cells. Whereas such naive pluripotency has been well demonstrated in rodents, poor chimerism has been achieved in other species including non-human primates due to the inability of the donor cells to match the developmental state of the host embryos. Here, we have systematically tested various culture conditions for establishing monkey naive embryonic stem cells and optimized the procedures for chimeric embryo culture.

Together with the Ada Lovelace Institute we have published a report highlighting the pressing ethical, legal and social questions surrounding the convergence of AI and genomics.

Científicos chinos y el español Miguel Ángel Esteban han creado en un laboratorio un animal que podría ayudar a investigar enfermedades humanas como el alzhéimer.

El Google Pixel 8 Pro ha llamado la atención de muchos usuarios porque agrega y elimina elementos a las imágenes, lo que plantea dilemas sobre su autenticidad.

Un informe de la revista ‘The Lancet’ destaca cómo la ciencia y medicina más avanzadas de su tiempo degeneraron por una ideología nacionalista.

La Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación publica una propuesta para evaluar la labor de los científicos incluyendo criterios cualitativos.