Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

04/03/2026

Global and Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Community Wealth Through Food, Drinking Raw Milk is Risky, Peptides, Food Deal, Shattering Global Food Security, Meat Dogma, AI 'Revolution', Farming All Wrong, + More

The Johns Hopkins Global Food Ethics and Policy Program, a collaboration of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International studies, addresses critical global issues of under- and over-nutrition and diet-related diseases, poverty, inequity ...

04/02/2026

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Plowing Ahead with State Regulation, Chatbot Playmates, Sycophantic AI Makes You Less Kind, Something Resembling a Conscience, AI in War, Dangerous Territory, Agents of Chaos, Illusion of Visual Understanding, + More

04/02/2026

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Embodied Brain Organoids & Perceptions of Consciousness, Brain Implant Music, Who Owns Digital Thoughts? Your Chatbot Isn't a Therapist, 'Self-Driving' Labs, Developing Gene Therapies, Brainless Human Clones? + More

04/01/2026

Berman Institute Bulletin - This Week - Failing Newborns, Insurance Predicts Survival, 'Unconscionable' Refusal, Rejected Ban, Medical Emergency in Space, Dogma of Meat, Risky Behavior, NIH Restrictions, Euthanasia Battle, Drug Factories, + More

04/01/2026

Exploring the Patient’s Lifeworld: A Qualitative Study of Personalizing Language in Electronic Health Records. Akanksha Suresh, Priyanka Fernandes, Ayah Zirikly, Elaine Thompson, Anne Links, Keith Harrigian, Brant Chee, Mark Dredze, Mary Catherine Beach, Somnath Saha

Background Physicians’ understanding of patients as persons can bolster relationships and help patients feel seen. Including personal details in electronic health records (EHR) may enhance care, but the types of details physicians document about patients’ lifeworlds remain largely uncharacterize...

03/31/2026

in the Academic Lit -This Week- Legal Perceptions & Disclosure, Embodied Brain Organoid Concerns, Developing Gene Therapies, Mindfulness Modules for Promoting Resilience, Keep Track of Your Own Story, Culture Drives Truth Telling, Takes Two to Transplant, + More

March 31, 2026 Impact of Legal Perceptions and Disclosure on Willingness to Undergo HIV Antiretroviral Resistance Testing Among Men Who Have S*x with Men: A Brief Report, AIDS and Behavior Authors: Coralei Neighbors, Travis Sanchez, Sheethal Jose, Gail Geller et al., including Juli Bollinger, Les...

03/31/2026

Ethical concerns about embodied brain organoids shaped by foundational distinctions and perceptions of consciousness. By J. Lomax Boyd, Eric Allen Jensen, Aaron Michael Jensen & Nethanel Li****tz | Scientific Reports

Human brain organoids embodied within virtual learning environments provide a novel experimental system for mechanistic studies of learning and memory. Yet these forms of synthetic biological or organoid intelligence raise moral and ethical concerns. Bioethicists argue that if biocomputers become co...

03/31/2026

It Takes Two to Transplant. By Julie England, Olivia S Kates, For Yue Tso, Hao Chen, Ricardo M La Hoz | Clinical Infectious Diseases

The patient is a 64-year-old female with a past medical history of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS)-induced end-stage renal disease (ESRD). She un

03/31/2026

Comment on: Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology—Culture Drives Truth Telling. By Yoram Unguru | Pediatric Blood & Cancer

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03/30/2026

03/30/2026

“Keep track of your own story” decentralized biobanking for community engagement in biospecimen research.
Rahul Gorijavolu, Kennedy Sabharwal, Eve Budd, Brandi Braud Scully, William Sanchez, M Eifler, Leo Celi, Robert Miller, Jeff Kahn, Mario Macis, Marielle Gross

Digital transformation in biobanking has traditionally prioritized professional users, leaving patients with limited feedback regarding specimen collection and utilization. We piloted a decentraliz...

03/30/2026

Ethical and Regulatory Considerations for Developing Gene Therapies Involving Genome Editing - Pishoy Gouda et al., including our Juli Bollinger, Jeffrey Kahn, Alan Regenberg, Jeremy Sugarman | Human Gene Therapy

Developing gene therapies involving gene editing is a rapidly evolving field with large potential implications for improving health for both rare and common dis...