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How lab-grown hybrid lifeforms bamboozle scientific ethics

Pigs with human kidneys? Brain-powered computer chips? Science is creating new kinds of living things – and our moral understanding needs to catch up fast.

Politics and society

Episode 86: Are Humans About to Evolve?

Trace the increasingly blurred line between man and machine in the world of transhumanism on our “What Happens Next?” podcast.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Episode 79: Are Reproductive Rights Human Rights?

This week, Monash University's “What Happens Next?” podcast investigates how making reproductive healthcare inaccessible hurts us all.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

These marsupials are rewriting the story of dental evolution

The teeth of the tammar wallaby don’t grow in the way you’d expect – and scientists want to know why.

Science

Now that Roe v Wade has been overturned, what are the consequences?

This US Supreme Court’s decision represents an astonishing step backwards for the protection of fundamental human rights, and sets a dangerous precedent for the potential overturning of other rights.

Politics and society

Going swimmingly: Sperm breakthrough offers fertility hope

New research has found that using high-frequency ultrasound on sperm can boost their ability to swim and increase the chances of conception.

Engineering

Meet the iBlastoid: A game-changer in unlocking the mystery of early human life

Understanding very early human development is a step closer after researchers created the cellular structure that becomes an early human embryo.

Medicine and health

Episode 33: History In The Making

In this final episode about exploring our history, Monash alum Elizabeth Finkel AM explains why she tells the stories of how science works, and our experts offer their best tips and advice on where to dig deeper for knowledge.

What Happens Next?

The tick-tick-tick of male fertility

Until now we haven’t really talked about male age and its effect on the chances of pregnancy, but it's a crucial component in the fertility puzzle.

Medicine and health

No bones about it

Researchers are examining the body’s response to developmental defects, in a bid to help prevent disorders such as foetal growth restriction.

Medicine and health

CRISPR: not cut and dried

The genetic modification of twin baby girls before their birth has highlighted the ethical concerns raised by the use of gene-editing tool CRISPR in humans.

Politics and society

Talking ’bout regeneration

For the stem cell researchers at ARMI, one small 'superfish' holds the key to repairing the brain and spinal cord in humans.

Medicine and health

Whose profit? Why bioethics needs a global perspective

While it is multi-disciplinary in perspective, in practice the field is dominated by moral philosophy, a discipline concerned with articulating and defending the rights and wrongs of behaviours

Medicine and health

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How lab-grown hybrid lifeforms bamboozle scientific ethics

Episode 86: Are Humans About to Evolve?

Episode 79: Are Reproductive Rights Human Rights?

These marsupials are rewriting the story of dental evolution

Now that Roe v Wade has been overturned, what are the consequences?

Going swimmingly: Sperm breakthrough offers fertility hope

Meet the iBlastoid: A game-changer in unlocking the mystery of early human life

Episode 33: History In The Making

The tick-tick-tick of male fertility

No bones about it

CRISPR: not cut and dried

Talking ’bout regeneration

Whose profit? Why bioethics needs a global perspective