Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
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Our mission: Identify & address key ethical issues in science, clinical care, public health - locally & globally.
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Research linking gut microbes to autism is deeply flawed, critics say. Amid growing investment in the field, a new paper argues it rests on shaky foundations. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Research linking gut microbes to autism is deeply flawed, critics say
Amid growing investment in the field, a new paper argues it rests on shaky foundations
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November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Research linking gut microbes to autism is deeply flawed, critics say. Amid growing investment in the field, a new paper argues it rests on shaky foundations. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
US Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations. Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for US scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
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November 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
US Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations. Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for US scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Pig-organ transplants are often rejected — researchers find a way to stop it. The successful treatment in a brain-dead man could be used in living people, to prevent the immune system attacking donor organs. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Pig-organ transplants are often rejected — researchers find a way to stop it
The successful treatment in a brain-dead man could be used in living people, to prevent the immune system attacking donor organs.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Pig-organ transplants are often rejected — researchers find a way to stop it. The successful treatment in a brain-dead man could be used in living people, to prevent the immune system attacking donor organs. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
FDA chiefs offer roadmap to expand custom gene-editing treatments like Baby KJ’s. Rather than approving an individual drug, the agency would essentially approve a group to create bespoke therapies. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f... via @statnews.com
FDA chiefs offer roadmap to expand custom gene-editing treatments like Baby KJ's
Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad offered a roadmap for expanding access to custom gene-editing treatments like the one used to treat Baby KJ's ultra-rare disease.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
FDA chiefs offer roadmap to expand custom gene-editing treatments like Baby KJ’s. Rather than approving an individual drug, the agency would essentially approve a group to create bespoke therapies. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f... via @statnews.com
AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Creativity, Ethically Sourced Image Data, Chatbot RIsks, Agocracy, Overhype, Dating Apps, Water Use, Historian Code of Ethics, Consent-GPT Validity, Neuromorphic Computing, Work, + Much More mailchi.mp/2e0311fde3aa...
AI Ethics & Governance Roundup
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November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Creativity, Ethically Sourced Image Data, Chatbot RIsks, Agocracy, Overhype, Dating Apps, Water Use, Historian Code of Ethics, Consent-GPT Validity, Neuromorphic Computing, Work, + Much More mailchi.mp/2e0311fde3aa...
Developing more equitable, healthy, and environmentally sustainable urban food systems: insights from Canada and the US - Katelyn Esmonde, Jessica Barth, Safura Abdool Karim & Anne Barnhill | Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Developing more equitable, healthy, and environmentally sustainable urban food systems: insights from Canada and the US - Katelyn Esmonde, Jessica Barth, Safura Abdool Karim & Anne Barnhill | Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ethics & Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Mind-Captioning, Consciousness & AI, Aha! Human Brain Cell Computers, AI Therapy Chatbots, ChatGPT Risks, Chatbot Love, Brain Organoids & Assembloids, Animal Models, Cloned Pet Dog, + Much More mailchi.mp/jhu/sciencee...
Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup
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November 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Ethics & Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Mind-Captioning, Consciousness & AI, Aha! Human Brain Cell Computers, AI Therapy Chatbots, ChatGPT Risks, Chatbot Love, Brain Organoids & Assembloids, Animal Models, Cloned Pet Dog, + Much More mailchi.mp/jhu/sciencee...
Deadly Medicine at the White House? The Real History Behind Netflix's New Miniseries — Physicians have never stopped arguing over a president's horrific death nearly 150 years ago. www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/...
Deadly Medicine at the White House? The Real History Behind Netflix's New Miniseries
Physicians have never stopped arguing over a president's horrific death nearly 150 years ago
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November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Deadly Medicine at the White House? The Real History Behind Netflix's New Miniseries — Physicians have never stopped arguing over a president's horrific death nearly 150 years ago. www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/...
Something Off About Recent Heart Failure Stem Cell Trial, Major Journal Admits — BMJ issues "expression of concern" about much-publicized phase III study. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Something Off About Recent Heart Failure Stem Cell Trial, Major Journal Admits
BMJ issues 'expression of concern' about much-publicized phase III study
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November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Something Off About Recent Heart Failure Stem Cell Trial, Major Journal Admits — BMJ issues "expression of concern" about much-publicized phase III study. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Researching sustainable food production, with help from the cows. Helena Kuoppala gets to work early to tend to a herd of dairy cows, exploring how dietary changes affect their health, milk yields and methane emissions. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Researching sustainable food production, with help from the cows
Helena Kuoppala gets to work early to tend to a herd of dairy cows, exploring how dietary changes affect their health, milk yields and methane emissions.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Researching sustainable food production, with help from the cows. Helena Kuoppala gets to work early to tend to a herd of dairy cows, exploring how dietary changes affect their health, milk yields and methane emissions. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
What Are Clinical Trials, and How Do They Work? A New York Times health reporter explains what clinical trials are, why they are important and how they can help inform us. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
What Are Clinical Trials, and How Do They Work?
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November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
What Are Clinical Trials, and How Do They Work? A New York Times health reporter explains what clinical trials are, why they are important and how they can help inform us. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
‘A sigh of relief’: New malaria drug succeeds in large clinical trial. As existing drugs falter because of resistance, the world gets a backup—but hard choices loom on how to use it. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘A sigh of relief’: New malaria drug succeeds in large clinical trial
As existing drugs falter because of resistance, the world gets a backup—but hard choices loom on how to use it
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November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
‘A sigh of relief’: New malaria drug succeeds in large clinical trial. As existing drugs falter because of resistance, the world gets a backup—but hard choices loom on how to use it. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Teens on the ethics panel: Why IRBs should hear from young people - Journal of Medical Ethics blog blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethi...
Teens on the ethics panel: Why IRBs should hear from young people - Journal of Medical Ethics blog
By Samuel Asiedu Owusu and Claudia Passos-Ferreira Pediatric research is often designed for children but reviewed without them. When research involves children, adults make the ethical calls. They des...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Teens on the ethics panel: Why IRBs should hear from young people - Journal of Medical Ethics blog blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethi...
What COP30 Can Learn from Climate Bioethics - by Carolyn P. Neuhaus, Cheryl Macpherson and Paul Cummins | #Bioethics Forum Essay | The Hastings Center www.thehastingscenter.org/what-cop30-c...
What COP30 Can Learn from Climate Bioethics : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
We offer these lessons from our investigations into climate bioethics with Latin American and Caribbean bioethics scholars.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
What COP30 Can Learn from Climate Bioethics - by Carolyn P. Neuhaus, Cheryl Macpherson and Paul Cummins | #Bioethics Forum Essay | The Hastings Center www.thehastingscenter.org/what-cop30-c...
Trump administration says immigrants may be denied visas for health reasons : NPR www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...
Immigrants with obesity, diabetes and other health problems may be denied visas
New guidance from the Trump administration directs visa officers to consider common health ailments, including obesity and diabetes, when would-be immigrants seek to enter the U.S.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Trump administration says immigrants may be denied visas for health reasons : NPR www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...
Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - Organoids & Assembloids, Medical Aid in Dying (MAID), Respect for Patients, Blaming ChatGPT, Diagnosing Evil, Community Health Center Funding, Is Aging a Disease? + Much More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...
Berman Institute Bioethics Bulletin
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November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - Organoids & Assembloids, Medical Aid in Dying (MAID), Respect for Patients, Blaming ChatGPT, Diagnosing Evil, Community Health Center Funding, Is Aging a Disease? + Much More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...
Freeman Family Ethics for Lunch: "Ethical & Legal Considerations in Responding to Requests for Hastened Death: A Discussion on Medical Aid in Dying (MAID)" | Tues, Nov. 18, Noon EST. Open to all, join in person, lunch provided, @hopkinsnursing.bsky.social - N231. Info: mailchi.mp/jhu/z6pu34uy...
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Freeman Family Ethics for Lunch: "Ethical & Legal Considerations in Responding to Requests for Hastened Death: A Discussion on Medical Aid in Dying (MAID)" | Tues, Nov. 18, Noon EST. Open to all, join in person, lunch provided, @hopkinsnursing.bsky.social - N231. Info: mailchi.mp/jhu/z6pu34uy...
ICYMI, Watch Now! Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH, "Reducing Stigmatizing Language in Patient Health Records to Promote Respect for Patients" - Berman Institute #Bioethics Seminar Series www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVMs...
Reducing Stigmatizing Language in Patient Health Records to Promote Respect for Patients by M Beach
YouTube video by Berman Institute
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November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
ICYMI, Watch Now! Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH, "Reducing Stigmatizing Language in Patient Health Records to Promote Respect for Patients" - Berman Institute #Bioethics Seminar Series www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVMs...
What Kennedy’s saturated fat guidelines would mean for American health. Overriding the evidence on saturated fat would mean less healthy school lunches and more cardiovascular disease, say nutrition experts. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/i... via @statnews.com
What Kennedy's saturated fat guidelines would mean for American health
RFK Jr.'s new dietary guidelines are set to encourage consumption of more saturated fat, but some nutrition experts say that could cause long-term, widespread harm.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
What Kennedy’s saturated fat guidelines would mean for American health. Overriding the evidence on saturated fat would mean less healthy school lunches and more cardiovascular disease, say nutrition experts. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/i... via @statnews.com
'Nuremberg': Can You Diagnose Evil? — A review of the new film and a look at its public health relevance today. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | 'Nuremberg': Can You Diagnose Evil?
A review of the new film and a look at its public health relevance today
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November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
'Nuremberg': Can You Diagnose Evil? — A review of the new film and a look at its public health relevance today. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions: Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions
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November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions: Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
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How people use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 of its conversations - What do people ask the popular chatbot? WaPo analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPT’s responses. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
We analyzed 47,000 ChatGPT conversations. Here’s what people really use it for.
What do people ask the popular chatbot? We analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPT’s responses.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
How people use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 of its conversations - What do people ask the popular chatbot? WaPo analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPT’s responses. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
‘It keeps me awake at night’: machine-learning pioneer on AI’s threat to humanity. Yoshua Bengio talks about his efforts to identify — and address — the risks posed by AI. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘It keeps me awake at night’: machine-learning pioneer on AI’s threat to humanity
Yoshua Bengio talks about his efforts to identify — and address — the risks posed by AI.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
‘It keeps me awake at night’: machine-learning pioneer on AI’s threat to humanity. Yoshua Bengio talks about his efforts to identify — and address — the risks posed by AI. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Is ageing a disease? The debate that could reshape medicine. Classifying ageing as a disease might bring funding and other benefits, say some researchers, but others say this is fraught with ethical and regulatory implications. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is ageing a disease? The debate that could reshape medicine
Classifying ageing as a disease might bring funding and other benefits, say some researchers, but others say this is fraught with ethical and regulatory implications.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Is ageing a disease? The debate that could reshape medicine. Classifying ageing as a disease might bring funding and other benefits, say some researchers, but others say this is fraught with ethical and regulatory implications. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Could humans live to 150? Why some researchers think we’re on the cusp of a major longevity breakthrough. Other scientists believe extending lifespan might be difficult but are pursuing therapies that aim to make us feel younger for longer. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Could humans live to 150? Why some researchers think we’re on the cusp of a major longevity breakthrough
Other scientists believe extending lifespan might be difficult but are pursuing therapies that aim to make us feel younger for longer.
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Could humans live to 150? Why some researchers think we’re on the cusp of a major longevity breakthrough. Other scientists believe extending lifespan might be difficult but are pursuing therapies that aim to make us feel younger for longer. www.nature.com/articles/d41...