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The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) is exploring how ethical considerations can help to inform policy decisions when weighing-up options available for combatting health impacts of climate change.

Thirty people living across England will soon meet to participate in the Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ project to explore public views on assisted dying.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) has published a policy briefing note identifying key ethical considerations raised by neural organoid research and areas where further ethical guidance, policy and regulatory decisions could be needed.

We are conducting a rapid review project to assess and advise on the ethical and regulatory issues raised by research using human stem cell-based embryo models.

We are working with Hopkins Van Mil, an award-winning social research agency, to design and facilitate England’s first-ever Citizens’ Jury to explore public views on assisted dying.

We believe there is an unmet need for a policy-tailored, ethically aware approach to horizon scanning and foresight.

We are delighted to announce that Stephen Wilkinson, Distinguished Professor of Bioethics at Lancaster University, has joined us as our latest Council member.

Research and Policy Manager Natalie Michaux discusses how neurotechnology has changed in the last decade.

We have published our new five-year strategy ‘Making ethics matter’.

Hear more about the rationale behind why we are changing the way we work to deliver our new strategy.

Through mapping existing ethical guidance available to those working in UK-based genomic research and healthcare, we have identified gaps in guidance that need addressing in a coordinated way.

Professor Anne Kerr, Council Member and Chair of the our Advisory Board for the public engagement project on assisted dying discusses why we are doing this work.