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Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, reflects on the themes she presented at a recent Royal Society ‘Transforming our future: Engineering biology’ conference.

In 2023, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) began working in partnership with international experts on a project to explore how ethical advice is sought and utilised during times of crisis. Today, we welcome Dr Marija Antanavičiūtė on a 12-month secondment to lead on the development of a Rapid Ethical Assessment tool.

Read about what the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) Horizon Scanning (HS) and Foresight team have been up to as part of our ethical lens project.

Council Member Melanie Challenger shares thoughts on adopting a multispecies approach to bioethics.

This year we ran England’s first Citizens’ Jury exploring public views on assisted dying. Here’s how our work can help to inform next stages of the UK assisted dying bill.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) has published proposals for the governance of research using stem cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs).

New evidence, published by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) suggests a person’s view on assisted dying is shaped by the level of confidence they have in effective safeguarding being possible, and the imminence to which they have been confronted with their own or a loved one’s death.  

This year, we have produced and published a new timeframed version of our annual horizon scan.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) has published a Horizon Scan (HS) for 2024, displaying the topics identified within a timeframe we think they could raise ethical implications in the UK. 

Our project exploring the governance and regulation of neural organoids has advanced with a roundtable event attended by researchers and regulatory experts from across this diverse and interdisciplinary area of research.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) are revisiting the ethics of developments in neurotechnology and have launched a call for evidence.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) has published an interim findings report, which shows the Citizens’ Jury tasked with exploring public views on assisted dying has concluded that the law in England should be changed to permit assisted death.