Category: Health and technology
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From laboratory to hospital: rethinking the rules for medical research
A hospital treats the patient. A university laboratory prepares the therapy. Why does the laboratory’s address change the rules — and how could research approvals better support their work?
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Neurorights for computational neurosurgeons
Implanted neural devices promise to relieve enormous suffering, but they also raise questions about privacy, manipulation, and what informed consent can mean for a system that keeps changing. And one day, the neurosurgeons implanting them may need neurorights of their own.
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A ‘regulatory quagmire’? Extracellular vesicle therapies in Australia
Extracellular vesicles hold promise for regenerative medicine and drug delivery. Their path to clinical use presents regulatory challenges as well as scientific ones.
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Moral conviction is not standing: Fidge v Pfizer and the Gene Technology Act
In a case interesting for many reasons, Rofe J of the Federal Court of Australia has held it is not an ‘incident of medical practice’ for medical practitioners to challenge alleged offences under law to (putatively) protect patients.
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Chimeric animals: Bioethically questionable but scientifically informative?
A new study published in Cell demonstrates the potential of donated embryonic stem cells to effectively blend with a primate’s cellular DNA, creating a chimeric animal.