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UKRI and Nuffield Council explore the UK bioethics landscape
26 Oct 2021
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics and UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) are working together to gain a clearer understanding of the bioethics landscape in the UK.
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Nuffield Council on Bioethics welcomes delay in making COVID-19 vaccination compulsory for health care workers in England
09 Nov 2021
We welcome the announcement that COVID-19 vaccination will not become a condition of deployment for all healthcare workers in England until the spring.
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Press Release
Act now to ensure animal welfare is at the heart of plans to introduce genome editing into farmed animal breeding, says independent ethics body
01 Dec 2021
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is calling on the Government to put animal welfare at the heart of plans to approve new breeding technologies in farming and food production, in a new report ‘Genome editing and farmed animal breeding: social and ethical issues’, published today.
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Ethical preparedness should be central to WHO agreement on pandemic preparedness
03 Dec 2021
We welcome the decision of the World Health Assembly to develop an international agreement on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response under the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Embedding ethics in research – Nuffield Council welcomes guidelines for grant reviewers
15 Dec 2021
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics warmly welcomes new guidelines by UKRI and UNICEF that aim to help grant reviewers consider ethical issues when reviewing proposals for research in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
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New infographic highlights ethical issues ‘on the horizon’ in biology and medicine
13 Jan 2022
Our new infographic illustrates a wide range of developments related to biological and medical research that are likely to raise ethical issues in the near or far future.