Matariki Research Ethics Workshop at Herstmonceux Castle

The 2017 Matariki Research Ethics Conference, jointly hosted by Queen's University and the journal Bioethics, is currently running at the Bader International Study Centre. It explores the recent revisions made to two influential international research ethics guidance documents, the World Medical Association鈥檚 Declaration of Helsinki and the Council for International Organisations of Medical Sciences International Ethical Guidelines for Health-related Research Involving Humans.

Daryn Lehoux on NPR

Daryn Lehoux was the subject of a, talking about the history of the idea of spontaneous generation and his book Creatures Born of Mud and Slime. We accept that, at some point in the history of our universe, living creatures emerged from nonliving matter. Yet from the time of Aristotle until the late nineteenth century, many people believed in spontaneous generation, that living creatures sprang into existence from rotting material.