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Earlier this year, the Lacks estate settled a lawsuit regarding a company’s profiting off of HeLa cells. The case serves as a reminder of the importance of proper ethics in human research.

bioethics

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Human Neural Organoid Research Needs Better Regulation

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Should the scientific community abandon the 14-day rule for research on human embryos?

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Addressing the Problematic Past of Animal Behavior Research

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Researchers Transplant Human Neurons into Rat Brains

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Birth of The Pill, 1956–1960

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Sticks and Bones, Circa 8000 BCE

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Book Excerpt from When Animals Dream

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Opinion: Animal Dreaming Should Give Us Ethical Pause

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Opinion: The Reproductive Technology Advances No One Asked For

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Brain-Computer Interface Advances Help Reconnect the Mind and Body

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Epic Fail: Sea-Monkeys Sabotage Fieldwork

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Flawed Studies Linked Menopausal Hormone Therapy to Breast Cancer

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Resipher: Continuous Live-Cell Mitochondrial Respiration Monitoring in 96-Well Plates

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Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance in Liver Cancer

Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance in Liver Cancer

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Epic Fail: Sea-Monkeys Sabotage Fieldwork

When Barry Hicks set out to photograph thrombolites, thousands of unexpected visitors photobombed his underwater images.

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Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance in Liver Cancer

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