Medical professionals and fertility clinics are prohibited, under penalty of law, from experimenting on a prospective parent(s) human reproductive material, including sperm, ovum, or embryo at any ...

Japan's robot lab operates 24/7 with zero human staff, using 10 autonomous machines to accelerate medical research and drug ...

A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s, including putting pesticides and ...

The pursuit of scientific knowledge has driven humanity to remarkable achievements — cures for diseases, revolutionary technologies, and breakthroughs that have saved millions of lives. Yet this noble ...

Carl Elliott is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota and author of "The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No." When it ...

Elon Musk’s team has implanted a powerful computer chip inside a living person’s brain, a startling step toward a sci-fi future when we can steer computers with our thoughts. Lawyers for Elon Musk and ...

The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No. By Carl Elliott. W.W. Norton; 368 pages; $29.99 and £23.99 PAOLO MACCHIARINI (pictured) made headlines in 2011 when ...