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As part of our inquiry on the future of ageing, we have begun a series of creative engagement workshops with two events with older people in Bristol and Manchester.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are working together to gain a clearer understanding of how the ethical implications of biological and medical research are considered by people and organisations in the UK. 

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics and the Ada Lovelace Institute will be working together on a new project on AI and genomics futures.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of two new Council members.

We welcome the Government’s ‘R&D People and Culture Strategy’.

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Beauty, Aesthetics and Wellbeing published its report into Botox, fillers, and similar non-surgical cosmetic treatments. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics played an important role in initiating this APPG inquiry.

In 2019, the World Health Organization convened an Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing. On Monday it published its findings in three reports: a position paper (summarising the findings), a set of recommendations and a framework for governance.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has today published the findings of its Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing.

In relation to pandemic policy in England, the absence of sustained ethical discourse at the level of government has created fundamental challenges to establishing how responsibility should be understood—practically, and as a matter of principle.

In the wake of the announced ending of most COVID restrictions the talk is inevitably of what the new normal will look like. Prominent in these discussions is the idea that there might be an ‘acceptable level of deaths’.

Guest post from Paquita de Zulueta, former Council member and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London