27 Mar 2018 Coding at birth: Nuffield Council on Bioethics publishes briefing note on whole genome sequencing of babies The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has today published a briefing note that examines the ethical issu...
06 Mar 2018 New voluntary register for non-surgical cosmetic procedures The Nuffield Council on Bioethics welcomes the opening of applications for the Joint Council for Cos...
28 Feb 2018 New research on appearance-based bullying in young people highlights the need for action The Nuffield Council on Bioethics welcomes the Be Real Campaign's 'In Your Face' report, publi...
23 Feb 2018 Nuffield Council on Bioethics raises concern over the lack of evidence to support Government’s planned move to opt-out organ donation Today, Parliament will debate the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill, which proposes to move to an...
09 Feb 2018 Nuffield Council on Bioethics welcomes Church of England’s call to value people with Down’s syndrome We welcome the Church of England's motion on valuing people with Down's Syndrome in light of the...
25 Jan 2018 Council announces membership of research in global health emergencies working group The Council has established a new working group to examine how research may be conducted ethically i...
10 Jan 2018 Who wants to live forever? Research on treatments for ageing is examined in a new Council briefing note Research on the biological processes of ageing is aiming to identify interventions that might delay ...
12 Dec 2017 UPDATED: Ethics think tank expresses concern over premature move to an opt-out organ donation system in England The Nuffield Council on Bioethics today expressed concern following the announcement of the Departme...
16 Nov 2017 Council announces new project looking at research in global health emergencies The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is embarking upon a major new inquiry to explore how research may ...
10 Nov 2017 Nuffield Council on Bioethics raises concerns about the ‘reflex’ prenatal screening test for Down’s syndrome Results of a study exploring the performance of the 'reflex' prenatal screening test have been p...
26 Oct 2017 Council gives evidence on research culture to the Science and Technology Select Committee Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser, who chaired of the Council's steering group on the culture of scie...
10 Oct 2017 Ethical challenges in bioscience and health policy for the UK Parliament Today (9 October) members of both houses of the UK Parliament received a document setting out four k...