Julian Savulescu While politicians wring their hands about sensible solutions to the organ shortage, scientists are progressing with genetic manipulations that may see human organs grown in pigs. US scientists are creating novel life forms:…

The University of Melbourne (the most prestigious university in my hometown) has advertised three senior positions in mathematics. Like some (but not all) other STEM subjects, mathematics has a low proportion of female academics. In part, t…

A start-up claims it can identify whether a face belongs to a high-IQ person, a good poker player, a terrorist, or a pedophile. Faception uses machine-learning to generate classifiers that signal whether a face belongs in one category or no…

A version of this post was originally published in the Conversation  You are on holiday with your partner of several years. Your relationship is going pretty well, but you wonder if it could be better. It’s Valentine’s Day and you find a bo…

Associate Professor and Consultant Neonatologist Dominic Wilkinson (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics) argues that medical doctors should not always listen to their own conscience and that often they should do what the patient reque…

A version of this post was originally published at The Conversation. A trial to see if it is possible to regenerate brains in patients that have been declared clinically dead has been approved. Reanima Advanced Biosciences aims at using ste…

On Thursday 12 May 2016, Dr Nina Hallowell delivered the first St Cross Special Ethics Seminar of Trinity Term.  The talk is available to listen to here http://media.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/uehiro/TT16_STX_Hallowell.mp3 Title:  The role of ther…

By Dominic Wilkinson @Neonatalethics  and Keyur Doolabh, Medical Student, Monash University Towards the end of last year, and over the first months of 2016, there were alarming reports of the explosive spread of Zika virus infection in Sout…

Written by   Rachel New, researcher University of Oxford, and  Nadira Faber, Research Fellow University of Oxford. This article was originally published by The Conversation   Time to cooperate. Hands by Shutterstock   The Paris agreeme…

This article was originally published by The Conversation Written by Jim A.C. Everett, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford  and Molly Crockett, Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford Imagine that an out of cont…