Category: Health and technology
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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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Navigating the ‘regulatory quagmire’ for 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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Fidge v Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd
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.