by Ethos Institute | Jul 19, 2015 | Pulse
July 2015 Pulse In October 2014, Apple and Facebook made the headlines by announcing that they would pay the expenses of women employees who wished to freeze their eggs. This unprecedented move has revived debate on the ethical issues surrounding this particular use...
by Ethos Institute | Jul 5, 2015 | Pulse
July 2015 Pulse Without a doubt, the advances of modern Western medicine have benefited society in many ways. From vaccinations against debilitating but preventable diseases to targeted cancer therapies, modern medicine has contributed to the unprecedented decline in...
by Ethos Institute | Apr 20, 2015 | Pulse
April 2015 Pulse Without a doubt, some of the most important and exciting developments in biotechnology today are taking place in the new and vast field of neuroscience. The brain is seen as the organ that has the closest and most profound connections to the...
by Ethos Institute | Apr 5, 2015 | Pulse
April 2015 Pulse According to an article in the May issue of The Scientist, an international team of researchers has successfully synthesised from scratch one of the sixteen chromosomes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Despite altering one-sixth of its base...
by Ethos Institute | Dec 15, 2014 | Pulse
December 2014 Pulse At Johns Hopkins University, neurosurgeons and biomedical engineers collaborated to create tiny, biodegradable ‘nanoparticles’ that can transport DNA to brain cancer cells in mice. These scientists hope that one day they will be able to load these...
