Bioethics and large-scale biobanking: individualistic ethics and collective projects*

Bioethics and large-scale biobanking: individualistic ethics and collective projects*

Like most bioethical discussion, examination of human biobanks has been largely framed in terms of research subjects’ rights, principally informed consent, with some gestures toward public benefits. However, informed consent is for the competent, rights-bearing individual: focussing on the individual, it thus neglects social, economic and even political matters; focussing on the competent right...

Organoid biobanking: identifying the ethics

R ecent developments in stem cell research and genomics have made it possible to grow mini-organs, socalled organoids, in culture. Organoids are self-assembling three-dimensional structures that closely resemble the architecture and function of real organs and are seen as one of the most significant developments in stem cell research with a wide range of applications in research and in the clin...

Large-Scale Collective Entity Matching

The difficult problem of Entity Matching (EM), i.e., determining whether different mentions of an entity refer to the same realworld object, has recently attracted a lot of attention from the Machine Learning (ML) research community. State-of-the-art solutions for EM are based on recent advances in ML, such as firstorder probabilistic models (e.g., Markov and Bayesian networks) and advanced pro...

The bioethics movement and hospital ethics committees.

Reflections on morality, ethics, and bioethics decisions.

From the presumed biological evolutionary origins of a urmorality, there eventually developed a conscious set of morality concepts and rules that became less immediate and more abstract, and increasingly shaped by social factors. Today the concepts and precepts of morality have come to form a complex system in which each specialized professional ethics respond with a certain degree of latitude ...