Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

The Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, or YICB, is an academic research center based primarily in the study of biomedical ethics.

Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Location
AffiliationsYale University
Websitebioethics.yale.edu

It is partnered with the Hastings Center to sponsor visiting Yale/Hastings Bioethics scholars. It also hosts the Sherwin Nuland international Summer Bioethics Institute (SBI). It is a subsidiary of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS).[1]

Director Stephen Latham was contacted by a Yale neuroscience team led by Dr. Nenad Sestan that had restored metabolic and cellular function in pig brains ex vivo.[2] The YICB ultimately agreed that Sestan's team had violated no ethical standards.[3] Latham recommended that guidelines regarding such practices should be established as similar experiments are carried out.[4]

References
  1. "A New Partnership in Bioethics" (PDF). The Yale-Hastings program in Ethics and Health Policy.
  2. "Neuroscientists Partially Revive Pig Brains After Death". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  3. Shaer, Matthew (2019-07-02). "Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  4. "Frankenpig?". yalealumnimagazine.com. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
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