After World War II, Nuremberg, Germany, was the site of trials of Nazi officials charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg trials were landmarks in the development of ...

The pursuit of scientific knowledge has driven humanity to remarkable achievements — cures for diseases, revolutionary technologies, and breakthroughs that have saved millions of lives. Yet this noble ...

Brain organoids are typically generated through in vitro self-assembly of stem cells or neural progenitor cells 1,2, which further undergo self-organization into tissue structures that resemble human ...

A report from a Japanese military medical conference held in March 1940 suggests that the Imperial Japanese Army may have repeatedly conducted experiments in China involving the transfusion of animal ...

, June 24 -- A museum in northeastern China has released new details about human experiments allegedly carried out by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, including cases in which animal ...

In this week's "It's Debatable" segment, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate on the question: Should ethical/legal restrictions on human testing be lifted to expedite the development of new ...

In 1979, the National Commission published The Belmont Report, which identifies three basic principles for the ethical conduct of research with human subjects: respect for persons, beneficence, and ...

This course explores the history of the scientific study of the human body from ancient Greece and Rome to the present. It examines the ways in which different communities sought to study, control, ...

Genetic researchers are experimenting on unborn children in trials that could have been done on animal embryos, according to Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk.