The specter of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study inevitably looms over talk of human subjects in medical research. The well-known case involved the U.S. Public Health Service, which, from 1932 to 1972, ...

A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s, including putting pesticides and ...

Medical research whistleblowers expose unethical studies for their own peace of mind, though doing so often leaves them feeling isolated and betrayed, according to this riveting study. Bioethicist ...

Carl Elliott is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota and author of "The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No." When it ...

The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No. By Carl Elliott. W.W. Norton; 368 pages; $29.99 and £23.99 PAOLO MACCHIARINI (pictured) made headlines in 2011 when ...

Geroscience examines the underlying biology of aging to delay chronic diseases and extend the healthy years of human life.

There are a lot of hot-button questions when it comes to the ethics of scientific research, but the perennial issue of animal testing seems to incite fever-pitched anger on both side of the debate.

Elon Musk’s team has implanted a powerful computer chip inside a living person’s brain, a startling step toward a sci-fi future when we can steer computers with our thoughts. How Trump and Musk’s ...

Elon Musk’s team has implanted a powerful computer chip inside a living person’s brain, a startling step toward a sci-fi future when we can steer computers with our thoughts. The patient is fine.