AIs can ‘memorize’ data they shouldn’t. Can they be forced to forget? New tool could help researchers probe how models “unlearn” sensitive training material. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

China moves to regulate digital humans, bans addictive services for children | Reuters www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Under 40 and Diagnosed With Cancer: Hundreds of New York Times readers shared their experiences with early-onset cancers. Here are seven of their stories. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Slasher sequel: Trump again proposes major cuts to U.S. science spending. Science advocates urge Congress to reject 2027 budget plan. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Webinar: A Conversation on Bioethical Responsibilities in 21st Century Crises. Tuesday, April 14, 7:00 - 8:15 PM EDT. Panelists include our Travis Rieder. Link for free registration to join via Zoom. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

How NASA’s moon mission could help transform space medicine | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

HHS Takes a First Step Toward Restoring Vaccine Advisory Committee. A federal judge last month questioned the legitimacy of the panel and overturned its recent work. A notice suggests that it may be revived on Robert F Kennedy Jr.s terms. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/h...

Global #FoodEthics and Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Community Wealth Through Food, Drinking Raw Milk is Risky, Peptides, Food Deal, Shattering Global Food Security, Meat Dogma, AI 'Revolution', Farming All Wrong, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/we3frp22...

Michael Rose: Subscription pricing could expand access to HIV prevention breakthrough while controlling costs. The ‘Netflix model’ has worked for hepatitis C treatment and can work for lenacapavir. www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/l... via @statnews.com

Digital twin hearts deliver 100% success in arrhythmia trial. Novel technology outperforms clinical standard for life-threatening condition. | Hub hub.jhu.edu/2026/04/01/d...

What history can teach us about AI. As the AI era unfolds around us, Johns Hopkins' historians Angus Burgin and Louis Hyman reflect on lessons learned from the rollout of the internet and other technological revolutions. | Hub hub.jhu.edu/2026/04/02/h...

Beyond detection: In the age of clinical AI, what counts as an FDA 'breakthrough' medical device? www.statnews.com/2026/04/02/h... via @statnews.com

Trump administration prepares 100% tariffs on some imported drugs. www.statnews.com/2026/04/01/t... via @statnews.com

Scientists created virtual replicas of patients’ diseased hearts so precise that blocking a dangerous irregular heartbeat in these digital “twins” showed doctors how to better treat the real thing. apnews.com/article/hear...

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Plowing Ahead with State Regulation, Chatbot Playmates, Sycophantic AI Makes You Less Kind, Something Resembling a Conscience, AI in War, Dangerous Territory, Agents of Chaos, Illusion of Visual Understanding, + More mailchi.mp/a35e3dec8ce1...

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Embodied Brain Organoids & Perceptions of Consciousness, Brain Implant Music, Who Owns Digital Thoughts? Your Chatbot Isn't a Therapist, 'Self-Driving' Labs, Developing Gene Therapies, Brainless Human Clones? + More mailchi.mp/jhu/sciencee...

A New Implant Aims to Rewire Stroke Patients’ Brains | WIRED www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project. Results from massive, ‘eagerly awaited’ initiative reinforce concerns about the credibility of science — but raise hope for solutions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI Models Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Protect Other Models From Being Deleted. A new study from researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz suggests models will disobey human commands to protect their own kind. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...

Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - Failing Newborns, Insurance Predicts Survival, 'Unconscionable' Refusal, Rejected Ban, Medical Emergency in Space, Dogma of Meat, Risky Behavior, NIH Restrictions, Euthanasia Battle, Drug Factories, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Legal Rights in The Pitt Episode About ICE in Hospitals | Petrie-Flom Center petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/04/01/l...

Biotech execs in search of human guinea pigs find eager subjects: themselves www.statnews.com/2016/07/07/g... via @statnews.com

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An Alzheimer’s blood test is getting popular. But who really needs it? Overuse of the p-tau217 biomarker could push healthy people toward unnecessary drugs, scientists fear. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

‘We’re failing newborns’: The global push to reduce infant deaths is losing steam. More than 60 countries are off track to meet U.N. target for 2030—even though solutions exist. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Today in "things that shouldn't be true, yet - here we are": How long young cancer patients survive often depends on the insurance they have theconversation.com/how-long-you...

Exploring the Patient’s Lifeworld-A Qualitative Study of Personalizing Language in Electronic Health Records. Akanksha Suresh, Priyanka Fernandes, Ayah Zirikly, Elaine Thompson, Anne Links, Keith Harrigian, Brant Chee, Mark Dredze, Mary Catherine Beach, Somnath Saha link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Department of State hasn’t given the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention all the money it needs to keep vital AIDS relief programs operating. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

States ranging from California to Utah are taking steps to place guardrails on AI technology even after the president ordered them to stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/t...

Doctors Without Borders calls Gilead ‘unconscionable’ for refusing to sell HIV prevention drug to organization. The nonprofit says allocation from The Global Fund is capped and demand ‘far exceeds’ supply. www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20... via @statnews.com

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit -This Week- Legal Perceptions & Disclosure, Embodied Brain Organoid Concerns, Developing Gene Therapies, Mindfulness Modules for Promoting Resilience, Keep Track of Your Own Story, Culture Drives Truth Telling, Takes Two to Transplant, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Ethical concerns about embodied brain organoids shaped by foundational distinctions and perceptions of consciousness. By J. Lomax Boyd, Eric Allen Jensen, Aaron Michael Jensen & Nethanel Lipshitz | Scientific Reports www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It Takes Two to Transplant. By Julie England, Olivia S Kates, For Yue Tso, Hao Chen, Ricardo M La Hoz | Clinical Infectious Diseases academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

Comment on: Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology—Culture Drives Truth Telling. By Yoram Unguru | Pediatric Blood & Cancer onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Justices Reject Colorado Law Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ for LGBTQ Minors. Colorado and more than 20 other states restrict therapists from trying to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of LGBTQ clients under the age of 18. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Supporters push to revive moribund agency studying patient care. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has grant money, but nobody to hand it out. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The Dogma of Meat: From Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s food pyramid to online influencers, beef has become more than just a source of protein. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

Who Owns Digital Thoughts? The Limits of Property Law and the 2025 UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology - Law and Biosciences Blog - Stanford Law School law.stanford.edu/2026/03/30/w...

“Keep track of your own story” decentralized biobanking for community engagement in biospecimen research. Rahul Gorijavolu, Kennedy Sabharwal, Eve Budd, Brandi Braud Scully, William Sanchez, M Eifler, Leo Celi, Robert Miller, Jeff Kahn, Mario Macis, Marielle Gross www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New Details Add a Bizarre Twist to NASA’s First ISS Medical Evacuation gizmodo.com/new-details-...

Ethical and Regulatory Considerations for Developing Gene Therapies Involving Genome Editing - Pishoy Gouda et al., including our Juli Bollinger, Jeffrey Kahn, Alan Regenberg, Jeremy Sugarman | Human Gene Therapy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A woman’s uterus has been kept alive outside the body for the first time | MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/28/1...

Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones | MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1...

Drinking Raw Milk Is Risky. Should People Be Able to Buy It Anyway? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...

CDC Report Spots Decreasing Coverage of 5 Vaccines — But 2-year coverage for kids born in 2021-2022 versus 2019-2020 remained largely stable overall. www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...

Why millions of seniors have suddenly lost health care coverage - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Here's why some people choose cryonics to store their bodies and brains after death | MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/27/1...

NIH restrictions on research partnerships with foreign institutions significantly impacted 1 in 4 US scientists www.statnews.com/2026/03/27/n... via @statnews.com

Global #FoodEthics & Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Not Making People Loafers, Food-Tracking Apps, Native Foods, Serious Problem, Coming For Your Grocery Bill, Fortification, False Promise of the AI Revolution, Small Specialty Crops, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/we3frp22...

Spanish woman dies by legal euthanasia in case that drew national attention. For nearly two years, Noelia Castillo pursued her right to die after her father put up a lengthy legal battle when a medical body in Catalonia approved her request for euthanasia in 2024 | AP News apnews.com/article/spai...