Publications

This report considers how NIPT could change the way we view pregnancy, disability and difference, and what the wider consequences of its increasing use might be.

Genome editing techniques are transforming many areas of biological research. This review considers the impact of recent advances in genome editing and the range of ethical questions to which they give rise.

Exploring how ideas about naturalness feature in and affect public discussions about the ethics of science, technology and medicine.

This report looks at how children and young people can ethically be involved in research, and makes recommendations about the roles and responsibilities of children, their parents or guardians, researchers and others.

This report looks at the ethical issues raised by data use in biomedical research and health care, and sets out key ethical principles for the design and governance of data initiatives.

The project aimed to explore the effects of a wide range of influences on scientific research, including funding mechanisms, publishing models, career structures and governance processes.

This report looks at the possible benefits and unintended consequences of intervening in the brain, and sets out an ethical framework to guide the practices of those involved in development, regulation, use and promotion of novel neurotechnologies.

This report considers the interests of people affected by donor conception and makes recommendations about what can be done to support, encourage and empower those making decisions about the sharing of information.

Exploring the ethical issues and challenges raised by emerging biotechnologies and setting out a ‘public ethics’ approach to guide policy making, research and regulation.

This report examines the ethical issues raised by new techniques that aim to prevent the transmission of maternally-inherited mitochondrial DNA disorders.

This report proposes a new definition of solidarity and applies it to policy making in the areas of biobanks, pandemics and lifestyle disease.

This report sets out guidance to help people consider the ethical acceptability of various ways of encouraging people to donate, both for treatment of others and for scientific research.